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EVER-INCREASING 

FAITH 


BY 

EVANGELIST SMITH WIGGLESWORTH 

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1127 Milan Avenue, 

SOUTH PASADENA, CALIF., U. S. A. 


Copyright Applied for 1924 
by Smith Wigglesworth 



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Printed in the 
United States of America 


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TABLE OF CONTENTS 


Page 


CHAPTER 1 

- Have Faith in God. 9 

CHAPTER II 

Deliverance to the Captives... 16 

CHAPTER III 

The Power of the Name... 25 

CHAPTER IV 

Wilt Thou Be Made Whole?. 36 

CHAPTER V 

I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee. 45 

CHAPTER VI 

Himself Took Our Infirmities. 55 

CHAPTER VII 

Our Risen Christ. 62 

CHAPTER VIII 

Righteousness . 68 

CHAPTER IX 

The Words of This Life. 76 

CHAPTER X 

Life in the Spirit. 84 

CHAPTER XI 

What It Means to Be Full of the Holy Ghost—. 93 


CHAPTER XII 

The Bible Evidence of the Baptism of the Spirit 100 


CHAPTER XIII 

Concerning Spiritual Gifts.... 106 

CHAPTER XIV 

The Word of Knowledge, and Faith._. 122 

CHAPTER XV 

Gifts of Healings, and Miracles..,. 131 

CHAPTER XVI 

The Gift of Prophecy.. 139 

CHAPTER XVII 

The Discerning of Spirits.-. 146 

CHAPTER XVIII 

The Gift of Tongues..—.. 151 


































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CHAPTER I 


HAVE FAITH IN GOD 

“For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall 
say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou 
cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, 
but shall believe that those things which he saith shall 
come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. 
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye de¬ 
sire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and 
ye shall have them” (Mark 11:23,24). 

. These are days when we need to have our faith 
strengthened, when we need to know God. God has 
designed that the just shall live by faith. Any man 
can be changed by faith, no matter how he may be 
fettered. I know that God’s word is sufficient. One 
word from Him can change a nation. His word is 
from everlasting to everlasting. It is through the 
entrance of this everlasting Word, this incorruptible 
seed, that we are born again, and come into this won¬ 
derful salvation. Man cannot live by bread alone, but 
must live by every word that proceedeth out of the 
mouth of God. This is the food of faith. “Faith com- 
eth by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” 

Everywhere men are trying to discredit the Bible 
and take from it all the miraculous. One preacher 
says, “Well, you know, Jesus arranged beforehand to 
have that colt tied where it was, and for the men 
to say just what they did.” I tell you God can ar¬ 
range everything without going near. He can plan 
for you, and when He plans for you, all is peace. All 
things are possible if you will believe. 


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EVER-INCREASING FAITH 


Another preacher said, “It was an easy thing for 
Jesus to feed the people with five loaves. The loaves 
were so big in those days that it was a simple matter 
to cut them into a thousand pieces each.” But He 
forgot that one little boy brought those five loaves all 
the way in his lunch basket. ’ There is nothing impos¬ 
sible with God. All the impossibility is with us when 
we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief. 

We have a wonderful God, a God whose ways are 
past finding out, and whose grace and power are limit¬ 
less. I was in Belfast one day and saw one of the 
brethren of the assembly. He said to me, “Wiggles- 
worth, I am troubled. I have had a good deal of sor¬ 
row during the past five months. I had a woman 
in my assembly who could always pray the blessing 
of heaven down on our meetings. She is an old wom¬ 
an, but her presence is always an inspiration. But 
five months ago she fell and broke her thigh. The 
doctors put her into a plaster cast, and after five 
months they broke the cast. But the bones were not 
properly set and so she fell and broke the thigh 
again.” 

He took me to her house, and there was a woman 
lying in a bed on the right hand side of the room. I 
said to her, “Well, what about it now?” She said, 
“They have sent me home incurable. The doctors say 
that I am so old that my bones won’t knit. There is 
no nutriment in my bones and they could never do 
anything for me, and they say I shall have to lie in 
bed for the rest of my life.” I said to her, “Can you 
believe God?” She replied, “Yes, ever since I heard 
that you had come to Belfast my faith has been 
quickened. If you will pray, I will believe. I know 
there is no power on earth that can make the bones 
of my thigh knit, but I know there is nothing impos¬ 
sible with God.” I said, “Do you believe He will meet 
you now?” She answered, “I do.” 

It is grand to see people believe God. God knew 
all about this leg and that it was broken in two places. 
I said to the woman, “When I pray, something will 


HAVE FAITH IN GOD 


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happen.” Her husband was sitting there; he had been 
in his chair for four years and could not walk a step. 
He called out, “I don’t believe. I won’t believe. You 
will never get me to believe.” I said, “All right,” and 
laid my hands on his wife in the name of the Lord 
Jesus. The moment hands were laid upon her the 
power of God went right through her and she cried 
out, “I’m healed.” I said, “I’m not going to assist 
you to rise. God will do it all.” She rose and walked 
up and down the room, praising God. 

The old man was amazed at what had happened to 
his wife, and he cried out, “Make me walk, make me 
walk.” I said to him, “You old sinner, repent.” He 
cried out, “Lord, You know I never meant what I said. 
You know I believe.” I don’t think he meant what he 
said; anyhow the Lord was full of compassion. If 
He marked our sins, where would any of us be? If 
we will meet the conditions, God will always meet 
us. If we believe, all things are possible. I laid my 
hands on him and the power went right through the 
old man’s body; and those legs, for the first time in 
four years, received power to carry his body, and he 
walked up and down and in and out. He said, “O 
what great things God has done for us tonight!” 

“What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, be¬ 
lieve that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” 
Desire toward God, and you will have desires from 
God; and He will meet you on the line of those de¬ 
sires when you reach out in simple faith. 

A man came to me in one of my meetings who had 
seen other people healed and wanted to be healed, 
too. He explained that his arm had been fixed in a 
certain position for many years and he could not move 
it. “Got any faith?” I asked. He said he had a lot 
of faith. After prayer he was able to swing his arm 
round and round. But he was not satisfied and com¬ 
plained, “I feel a little bit of trouble just there,” point¬ 
ing to a certain place. I said, “Do you know what is 
the trouble with you?” He answered, “No.” I said, 
“Imperfect faith.” “What things soever ye desire, 


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when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye 
shall have them.” 

Did you believe before you were saved? So many 
people would be saved, but they want to feel saved 
first. There was never a man who felt saved before 
he believed. God’s plan is always this, if you will 
believe, you shall see the glory of God. I believe God 
wants to bring us all to a definite place of unswerving 
faith and confidence in Himself. 

Jesus here uses the figure of a mountain. Why 
does He say a mountain? Because, if faith can re¬ 
move a mountain, it can remove anything. The plan 
of God is so marvelous, that if you will only believe, 
all things are possible. 

There is one special phrase to which I want to call 
your attention, “And shall not doubt in his heart.” 
The heart is the mainspring. See that young man 
and young woman. They have fallen in love at first 
sight. In a short while there is a deep affection, and 
a strong heart love, the one toward the other. What 
is a heart of love? A heart of faith. Faith and love 
are kin. In the measure that that young man and that 
young woman love one another they are true. One 
may go to the North and the other to the South, but 
because of their love they will be true to each other. 

It is the same when there is a deep love in the heart 
toward the Lord Jesus Christ. In this new life into 
which God has brought us, Paul tells us that we have 
become dead to the law by the body of Christ, that we 
should be married to another, even to Him who is 
raised from the dead. God brings us into a place of 
perfect love and perfect faith. A man who is born 
of God is brought into an inward affection, a loyalty 
to the Lord Jesus that shrinks from anything impure. 
You see the purity of a man and woman when there 
is a deep natural affection between them; they disdain 
the very thought of either of them being untrue. I 
say that, in the measure that a man has faith in Jesus, 
he is pure. He that believeth that Jesus is the Christ 


HAVE FAITH IN GOD 


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overcometh the world. It is a faith that worketh by 
love. 

Just as we have heart fellowship with our Lord, our 
faith cannot be daunted. We cannot doubt in our 
hearts. There comes, as we go on with God, a won¬ 
derful association, an inpartation of His very life and 
nature within. As we read His Word and believe the 
promises that He has so graciously given to us, we 
are made partakers of His very essence and life. The 
Lord is made to us a Bridegroom, and we are His 
bride. His words to us are spirit and life, trans¬ 
forming us and changing us, expelling that which is 
natural and bringing in that which is divine. 

It is impossible to comprehend the love of God as 
we think on natural lines. We must have the revela¬ 
tion from the Spirit of God. God giveth liberally. He 
that asketh, receiveth. God is willing to bestow on 
us all things that pertain to life and godliness. Oh, it 
was the love of God that brought Jesus. And it is 
this same love that helps you and me to believe. In 
every weakness God will be your strength. You who 
need His touch, remember that He loves you. Look, 
wretched, helpless, sick one, away to the God of all 
grace, whose very essence is love, who delights to give 
liberally all the inheritance of life and strength and 
power that you are in need of. 

When I was in Switzerland the Lord was graciously 
working and healing many of the people. I was stay¬ 
ing with Brother Reuss of Goldiwil and two policemen 
were sent to arrest me. The charge was that I was 
healing the people without a license. Mr. Reuss said 
to them, “I am sorry that he is not here just now. He 
is holding a meeting about two miles away, but be¬ 
fore you arrest him I would like to show you some¬ 
thing.” 

Brother Reuss took these two policemen down to 
one of the lower parts of that district, to a house with 
which they were familiar, for they had often gone to 
that place to arrest a certain woman, who was re¬ 
peatedly put in the prison because of continually be- 


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ing engaged in drunken brawls. He took them to this 
woman and said to them, “This is one of the many 
cases of blessing that have come through the ministry 
of the man you have come to arrest. This woman 
came to our meeting in a drunken condition. Her 
body was broken, for she was ruptured in two places. 
While she was drunk, the evangelist laid his hands on 
her and asked God to heal her and deliver her.” The 
woman joined in, “Yes, and God saved me, and I have 
not tasted a drop of liquor since.” The policemen had 
a warrant for my arrest, but they said with disgust, 
“Let the doctors do this kind of thing.” They turned 
and went away and that was the last we heard of 
them. 

We have a Jesus that heals the broken-hearted, who 
lets the captives go free, who saves the very worst. 
Dare you, dare you, spurn this glorious Gospel of God 
for spirit, soul and body? Dare you spurn this grace? 
I realize that this full Gospel has in great measure 
been hid, this Gospel that brings liberty, this Gospel 
that brings souls out of bondage, this Gospel that 
brings perfect health to the body, this Gospel of en¬ 
tire salvation. Listen again to this word of Him who 
left the glory to bring us this great salvation, “Ver¬ 
ily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this 
mountain, Be thou removed, ... he shall have what¬ 
soever he saith.” Whatsoever! 

I realize that God can never bless us on the lines 
of being hard-hearted, critical or unforgiving. This 
will hinder faith quicker than anything. I remember 
being at a meeting where there were some people 
tarrying for the Baptism—seeking for cleansing, for 
the moment a person is cleansed the Spirit will fall. 
There was one man with eyes red from weeping bit¬ 
terly. He said to me, “I shall have to leave. It is 
no good my staying without I change things. I have 
written a letter to my brother-in-law, and filled it with 
hard words, and this thing must first be straightened 
out.” He went home and told his wife, “I’m going 
to write a letter to your brother and ask him to for- 


HAVE FAITH IN GOD 


15 


give me for writing to him the way I did.” “You 
fool!” she said. “Never mind,” he replied, “this is be¬ 
tween God and me, and it has got to be cleared away.” 
He wrote the letter and came again, and straightway 
God filled him with the Spirit. 

I believe there are a great many people who would 
be healed, but they are harboring things in their 
hearts that are as a blight. Let these things go. For¬ 
give, and the Lord will forgive you. There are many 
good people, people that mean well, but they have no 
power to do anything for God. There is just some 
little thing that came in their hearts years ago, and 
their faith has been paralyzed ever since. Bring ev¬ 
erything to the light. God will sweep it all away if 
you will let Him. Let the precious blood of Christ 
cleanse from all sin. If you will but believe, God will 
meet you and bring into your lives the sunshine of 
His love. 


HEALINGS IN NEW ZEALAND 

We have received a few testimonies of those healed 
in the meeting conducted by Brother Smith Wiggles- 
worth at Wellington, New Zealand. Mrs. E. Curtis 
of Christchurch, New Zealand, was suffering with 
septic poisoning. She had become only a skeleton and 
the doctors could do nothing for her. She had agon¬ 
izing pains all day and all night. She was healed 
immediately prayer was made for her. She states 
that for the past sixteen years she has been a martyr 
to pain but is now wonderfully well. Another testi¬ 
fied to healing of deafness, goiter, adenoids and bad 
eyesight. Another testified to healing of double cur¬ 
vature of the spine from infancy, hip disease, weak 
heart, leg lengthened three inches, which grew nor¬ 
mal like the other leg. It was also three inches less 
in circumference. She wore a large boot but now 
walks on even feet, the large boot having been dis¬ 
carded. Another was healed from goiter through a 
handkerchief.—Pentecostal Evangel. 



CHAPTER II 

DELIVERANCE TO THE CAPTIVES 
Read Luke 4:1-20 

Our precious Lord Jesus has everything for every¬ 
body. Forgiveness of sin, healing of diseases and 
the fulness of the Spirit all come from one source— 
from the Lord Jesus Christ. Hear Him who is the 
same yesterday, to day and forever as He announces 
the purpose for which He came: “The Spirit of the 
Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to 
preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal 
the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the cap¬ 
tives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at 
liberty them that are bruised, to preach the accept¬ 
able year of the Lord.” 

Jesus had been baptized by John in Jordan, and the 
Holy Spirit had descended in a bodily shape like a 
dove upon Him. Being full of the Holy Ghost, He had 
been led by the Spirit into the wilderness, there to 
come off more than conqueror over the arch enemy. 
Then He returned in the power of the Spirit to Gali¬ 
lee and preached in the synagogues, and at last He 
came to His old home town—Nazareth, where He 
announced His mission in the words I have just quot¬ 
ed. For a brief while He minstered on the earth, and 
then gave His life a ransom for all. But God raised 
Him from the dead. And before He went to the glory 
• He told His disciples that they too should receive 
the power of the Holy Ghost upon them. Thus, 
through them, His gracious ministry would continue. 
This power of the Holy Ghost was not only for a few 
apostles, but even for them that are afar off, even as 

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DELIVERANCE TO THE CAPTIVES 


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many as our God should call (Acts 2:39) even for 
us in this twentieth century. Some ask, “But was not 
this power just for the privileged few in the first 
century?” No. Read the Master’s great commission 
as recorded by Mark, and you will see it is for them 
that believe. 

After 1 had received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost 
(and I know that I received; for the Lord gave me 
the Spirit in just the same way as He gave Him to 
the disciples at Jerusalem), I sought the mind of the 
Lord as to why I was baptized. One day I came home 
from work and went into the house and my wife asked 
me,“ Which way did you come in?” I told her that I 
had come in at the back door. She said, “There is a 
woman upstairs and she has brought an old man of 
eighty to be prayed for. He is raving up there and a 
great crowd is outside the front door, ringing the 
door-bell and wanting to know what is going on in 
the house.” The Lord quietly whispered, “This is 
what I baptized you for.” 

I carefully opened the door of the room where the 
man was, desiring to be obedient to what my Lord 
would say to me. The man was crying and shouting 
in distress, “I am lost! I am lost! I have committed 
the unpardonable sin. I am lost! I am lost!” My 
wife said, “Dad, what shall we do?” The Spirit of 
the Lord moved me to cry out, “Come out, thou lying 
spirit.” In a moment the evil spirit went, and the 
man was free. Deliverance to the captives! And the 
Lord said to me, “This is what I baptized you for.” 

There is a place where God, through the power of 
the Holy Ghost, reigns supreme in our lives. The 
Spirit reveals, unfolds, takes of the things of Christ 
and shows them to us, and prepares us to be more 
than a match for Satanic forces. 

When Nicodemus came to Jesus he said, “We know 
that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man 
can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be 
with him.” Jesus said to him, “Verily, verily I say 
unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see 


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the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus was impressed by 
the miracles wrought; and Jesus pointed out the ne¬ 
cessity of a miracle being wrought with every man 
who would see the kingdom. When a man is born of 
God, is brought from darkness to light, a mighty mir¬ 
acle is wrought. Jesus saw every touch by God as 
a miracle, and so we may expect to see miracles 
wrought today. It is wonderful to have the Spirit of 
the Lord upon us. I would rather have the Spirit of 
God on me for five minutes than to receive a million 
dollars. 

Do you see how Jesus mastered the devil in the 
wilderness ? He knew He was the Son of God and 
Satan came along with an “if.” How many times has 
Satan come along to you this way? He says, “After 
all, you may be deceived. You know you really are 
not a child of God.” If the devil comes along and 
says that you are not saved, it is a pretty sure sign 
that you are. When he comes and tells you that you 
are not healed, it may be taken as good evidence that 
the Lord has sent His word and healed you. The 
devil knows that if he can capture your thought life, 
he has won a mighty victory over you. His great 
business is injecting thoughts, but if you are pure and 
holy you will instantly shrink from them. God wants 
us to let the mind that was in Christ Jesus, that pure, 
holy, humble mind of Christ, be in us. 

I come across people everywhere I go who are held 
bound by deceptive conditions, and these conditions 
have come about simply because they have allowed 
the devil to make their minds the place of his strong¬ 
hold. How are we to guard against this ? The Lord 
has provided us with weapons that are mighty 
through God to the pulling down of these strong¬ 
holds of the enemy, and by means of which every 
thought shall be brought into captivity to the obe¬ 
dience of Christ. The blood of Jesus Christ and His 
mighty name are an antidote to all the subtle seeds 
of unbelief that Satan would sow in your minds. 

In the first chapter of Acts, we see that Jesus gave 


DELIVERANCE TO THE CAPTIVES 


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commandment to the disciples that they should wait 
for the promise of the Father, and He told them that 
not many days hence they would be baptized with the 
Holy Ghost. Luke tells us that he had written his 
former treatise concerning all that Jesus began both 
to do and teach. The ministry of Christ did not end 
at the cross, but the Acts and the epistles give us ac¬ 
counts of what He continued to do and teach through 
those whom He indwelt. And our blessed Lord Jesus 
is still alive, and continues His ministry through those 
who are filled with His Spirit. He is still healing the 
broken-hearted and delivering the captives through 
those on whom Fie places His Spirit. 

I was traveling one day in a railway train in Swe¬ 
den. At one station there boarded the train an old 
lady with her daughter. The old lady’s expression 
was so troubled that I enquired what was the matter 
with her. I heard that she was going to the hospital 
to have her leg taken off. She began to weep as she 
told that the doctors had said that there was no hope 
for her except through having her leg amputated. 
She was seventy years old. I said to my interpreter, 
“Tell her that Jesus can heal her.” The instant this 
was said to her, it was as though a veil was taken off 
her face, it became so light. We stopped at another 
station and the carriage filled up with people. There 
was a rush of men to board that train and the devil 
said, “You’re done.” But I knew I had the best prop¬ 
osition, for hard things are always opportunities to get 
to the Lord more glory when He manifests His power. 
Every trial is a blessing. There have been times when 
I have been pressed through circumstances and it 
seemed as if a dozen road engines were going over 
me, but I have found that the hardest things are just 
lifting places into the grace of God. We have such 
a lovely Jesus. He always proves Himself to be such 
a mighty Deliverer. He never fails to plan the best 
things for us. 

The train began moving and I crouched down, and 
in the name of Jesus commanded the disease to leave. 


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The old lady cried, “I’m healed. I know I’m healed.’’ 
She stamped her leg and said, “I’m going to prove it.” 
So when we stopped at another station she marched 
up and down, and shouted, “I’m not going to the hos¬ 
pital.” Once again our wonderful Jesus had proven 
Himself a Healer of the broken-hearted, a Deliverer 
of one that was bound. 

At one time I was so bound that no human power 
could help me. My wife was looking for me to pass 
away. There was no help. At that time I had just 
had a faint glimpse of Jesus as the Healer. For six 
months I had been suffering from appendicitis, occa¬ 
sionally getting temporary relief. I went to the mis¬ 
sion of which I was pastor, but I was brought to the 
floor in awful agony, and they brought me home to 
my bed. All night I was praying, pleading for deliv¬ 
erance, but none came. My wife was sure it was my 
home call and sent for a physician. He said that 
there was no possible chance for me—my body was 
too weak. Having had the appendicitis for six months, 
my whole system was drained, and, because of that, 
he thought that it was too late for an operation. He 
left my wife in a state of broken-heartedness. 

After he left, there came to our door a young man 
and an old lady. I knew that she was a woman of 
real prayer. They came upstairs to my room. This 
young man jumped on the bed and commanded the 
evil spirit to come out of me. He shouted, “Come out, 
you devil; I command you to come out in the name 
of Jesus!” There was no chance for an argument, or 
for me to tell him that I would never believe that 
there was a devil inside of me. The thing had to go 
in the name of Jesus, and it went, and I was instantly 
healed. 

I arose and dressed and went downstairs. I was 
still in the plumbing business, and I asked my wife, 
“Is there any work in? I am all right now, and I 
am going to work.” I found there was a certain job 
to be done and I picked up by tools and went off to 
do it. Just after I left, the doctor came in, put his 


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21 


plug hat down in the hall, and walked up to the bed¬ 
room. But the invalid was not there. “Where is Mr. 
Wigglesworth?” he asked. “Oh, doctor, he’s gone 
out to work,” said my wife. “You’ll never see him 
alive again,” said the doctor; “they’ll bring him back 
a corpse.” 

Well, I’m the corpse. 

Since that time, in many parts of the world, the 
Lord has given me the privilege of praying for people 
with appendicitis; and I have seen a great many peo¬ 
ple up and dressed within a quarter of an hour from 
the time I prayed for them. We have a living Christ 
who is willing to meet people on every line. 

About eight years ago I met Brother D. W. Kerr 
and he gave me a letter of introduction to a brother in 
Zion City named Cook. I took his letter to Brother 
Cook, and he said, “God has sent you here.” He gave 
me the addresses of six people and asked me to go and 
pray for them and meet him again at 12 o’clock. I 
got back at about 12 :30 and he told me about a young 
man who was to be married the following Monday. 
His sweetheart was in Zion City dying of appendici¬ 
tis. I went to the house and found that the physician 
had just been there and had pronounced that there 
was no hope. The mother was nearly distracted and 
was pulling her hair, and saying, “Is there no de¬ 
liverance!” I said to her, “Woman, believe God and 
your daughter will be healed and be up and dressed 
in fifteen minutes.” But the mother went on 
screaming. 

They took me into the bedroom, and I prayed for 
the girl and commanded the evil spirit to depart in 
the name of Jesus. She cried, “I am healed.” I said 
to her, “Do you want me to believe that you are 
healed? If you are healed, get up.” She said, “You 
get out of the room, and I’ll get up.” In less than ten 
minutes the doctor came in. He wanted to know 
what had happened. She said, “A man came in and 
prayed for me, and I’m healed.” The doctor pressed 
his linger right in the place that had been so sore, 


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and the girl neither moaned nor cried. He said, “This 
is God.” It made no difference whether he acknowl¬ 
edged it or not, I knew that God had worked. Our 
God is real in saving and healing power today. Our 
Jesus is just the same, yesterday, and today, and for¬ 
ever. He saves and heals today just as of old, and 
He wants to be your Saviour and your Healer. 

Oh, if you would only believe God! What would 
happen? The greatest things. Some have never 
tasted the grace of God, have never had the peace of 
God. Unbelief robs them of these blessings. It is 
possible to hear and yet not conceive the truth. It is 
possible to read the Word and not share in the life it 
brings. It is necessary for us to have the Holy 
Ghost to unfold the Word and bring to us the life that 
is Christ. We can never fully understand the wonders 
of this redemption until we are full of the Holy Ghost. 

I was once at an afternoon meeting. The Lord had 
been graciously with us and many had been healed by 
the power of God. Most of the people had gone home 
and I was left alone, when I saw a young man who 
was evidently hanging back to have a word. I asked, 
“What do you want?” He said, “I wonder if I could 
ask you to pray for me.” I said, “What’s the trou¬ 
ble?” He said, “Can’t you smell ?” The young fellow 
had gone into sin and was suffering the consequences. 
He said, “I have been turned out of two hosiptals. 
I am broken out all over. I have abscesses all over 
me.” And I could see that he had a bad breaking out 
at the nose. He said, “I heard you preach, and could 
not understand about this healing business, and was 
wondering if there was any hope for me.” 

I said to him, “Do you know Jesus?” He did not 
know the first thing about salvation, but I said to him, 
“Stand still.” I placed my hands on his head and then 
on his loins and cursed that terrible disease in the 
name of Jesus. He cried out, “I know I’m healed. I 
can feel a warmth and a glow all over me.” I said, 
“Who did it?” He said, “Your prayers.” I said, “No, 


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23 


sus! Jesus, save me.” And that young man went 
away healed and saved. Oh, what a merciful God we 
have! What a wonderful Jesus is ours! 

Are you oppressed? Cry out to God. It is always 
good for people to cry out. You may have to cry out. 
The Holy Ghost and the Word of God will bring to 
light every hidden, unclean thing that must be re¬ 
vealed. There is always a place of deliverance when 
you let God search out that which is spoiling and 
marring your life. That evil spirit that was in the 
man in the synagogue cried out, “Let us alone!” It 
was a singular thing that that evil spirit had never 
cried out like that until Jesus walked into the place 
where he was. Jesus rebuked the thing, saying, 
“Hold thy peace and come out of himand the man 
was delivered. He is just the same Jesus, exposing 
the powers of evil, delivering the captives and letting 
the oppressed go free, purifying them and cleansing 
their hearts. Those evil spirits that inhabited the 
man who had the legion did not want to be sent to the 
pit to be tormented before their time, and so they 
cried out to be sent into the swine. Hell is such an 
awful place that even the demons hate the thought, 
of going there. How much more should men seek; 
to be saved from the pit? 

God is compassionate and says, “Seek ye the Lord' 
while he may be found.” And He has further stated, 
“Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall 
be saved.” Seek Him now, call on His name right 
now, and there is forgiveness, healing, redemption, 
deliverance, and everything you need for you right 
here and now, and that which will satisfy you 
throughout eternity. 


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BLESSINGS IN AUSTRALIA 

Sister Winnie Andrews, N. Melbourne, Australia, 
writes: “Our Brother Wigglesworth landed here Feb¬ 
ruary 16th, and had a meeting that very night. The 
dear Lord was present and that to heal. A little girl 
of six, having never walked, after she had been prayed 
for, walked out of the front door with her mother, 
who was full of joy for what the Lord had done for 
her little one. Another man who had been suffering 
with bad feet for years and walked only with the aid 
of a stick was instantly healed and has been along 
several times to testify to what the Lord has done for 
him. Many deaf people have been delivered in an¬ 
swer to the prayer of faith. One night a dear man 
and his wife whom he brought to the meeting in a 
wheel chair, were both healed. He had been suffering 
from deafness for 20 years and she had not walked 
for over &A years. After prayer she got out of her 
chair and walked to the station, with her husband 
pushing the empty chair. He, too, was rejoicing in 
that he was now able to hear perfectly. O what a 
wonderful God we have. Blessed be His holy Name! 

“At the Sunday afternoon service, a dear young 
woman who had been suffering with tuberculosis for 
13 years and who was in the last stages, came leaning 
on the arm of a friend and was prayed for. At once 
she received new life and was perfectly delivered. 
The terrible burning sores which were eating their 
way into her bones have dried up and are peeling off, 
and she is looking so well and happy and is as strong 
as can be. Glory to God! Last night a young man 
suffering from consumption was prayed for and was 
instantly made whole. O, our hearts overflow at the 
glorious things God is doing in our midst! 

“Many have been healed of neuritis, heart and 
lung trouble and stiff joints. One woman who had 
not walked for 22 years and could not as much as turn 
her head—after prayer—got out of bed and walked, 
Praise God!”—From Pentecostal Evangel of April 15, 
1922. 


CHAPTER III 


THE POWER OF THE NAME 

Scripture Reading—Acts 3:1-16. 

All things are possible through the name of Jesus. 
God hath highly exalted Him, and given Him the name 
which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus 
every knee should bow. There is power to overcome 
everything in the world through the name of Jesus. 
I am looking forward to a wonderful union through 
the name of Jesus. There is none other name under 
heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. 

I want to instil into you a sense of the power, the 
virtue and the glory of that name. Six people went 
into the house of a sick man to pray for him. He was 
an Episcopalian vicar, and lay in his bed utterly help¬ 
less, without even strength to help himself. He had 
read a little tract about healing and had heard about 
people praying for the sick, and sent for these friends, 
who, he thought, could pray the prayer of faith. He 
was anointed according to James 5:14, but, because 
he had no immediate manifestation of healing, he 
wept bitterly. The six people walked out of the room, 
somewhat crestfallen to see the man lying there in 
an unchanged condition. 

When they were outside, one of the six said, “There 
is one thing we might have done. I wish you would 
all go back with me and try it.” They went back 
and all got together in a group. This brother said, 
“Let us whisper the name of Jesus.” At first when 
they whispered this worthy name nothing seemed to 
happen. But as they continued to whisper, “Jesus! 
Jesus! Jesus!” the power began to fall. As they saw 
that God was beginning to work, their faith and joy 


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increased, and they whispered the name louder and 
louder. As they did so the man arose from his bed 
and dressed himself. The secret was just this, those 
six people had gotten their eyes off the sick man, and 
they were just taken up with the Lord Jesus Himself, 
and their faith grasped the power that there is in His 
name. O, if people would only appreciate the power 
that there is in this name, there is no telling what 
would happen. 

I know that through His name and through the 
power of His name we have access to God. The very 
face of Jesus fills the whole place with glory. All 
over the world there are people magnifying that 
name, and O, what a joy it is for me to utter it. 

One day I went up into the mountain to pray. I had 
a wonderful day. It was one of the high mountains 
of Wales. I heard of one man going up this mountain 
to pray, and the Spirit of the Lord met him so won¬ 
derfully that his face shone like that of an angel when 
he returned. Every one in the village was talking 
about it. As I went up to this mountain and spent 
the day in the presence of the Lord, His wonderful 
power seemed to envelop and saturate and fill me. 

Two years before this time there had come to our 
house two lads from Wales. They were just ordinary 
lads, but they became very zealous for God. They 
came to our mission and saw some of the works of 
God. They said to me, “We would not be surprised 
if the Lord brings you down to Wales to raise our 
Lazarus.” They explained that the leader of their 
assembly was a man who had spent his days working 
in a tin mine and his nights preaching, and the result 
was that he had collapsed, gone into consumption, 
and for four years he had been a helpless invalid, hav¬ 
ing to be fed with a spoon. 

While I was up on that mountain top I was re¬ 
minded of the transfiguration scene, and I felt that the 
Lord’s only purpose in taking us into the glory was 
to fit us for greater usefulness in the valley. 

Tongues and Interpretation: “The living God has 


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27 


chosen us for His divine inheritance, and He it is who 
is preparing us for our ministry, that it may be of 
God and not of man.” 

As I was on the mountain top that day, the Lord 
said to me, “1 want you to go and raise Lazarus.” I 
told the brother who accompanied me of this, and 
when we got down to the valley, I wrote a postcard: 
“When I was up on the mountain praying today, God 
told me that I was to go and raise Lazarus.” I ad¬ 
dressed the postcard to the man in the place whose 
name had been given to me by the two lads. When 
we arrived at the place we went to the man to whom 
I had addressed the card. He looked at me and said, 
“Did you send this?” I said, “Yes.” He said, “Do 
you think we believe in this? Here, take it.” And 
he threw it at me. 

The man called a servant and said, “Take this man 
and show him Lazarus.” Then he said to me, “The 
moment you see him you will be ready to go home. 
Nothing will hold you.” Everything he said was true 
from the natural viewpoint. The man was helpless. 
He was nothing but a mass of bones with skin 
stretched over them. There was no life to be seen. 
Everything in him spoke of decay. 

I said to him, “Will you shout? You remember 
that at Jericho the people shouted while the walls 
were still up. God has like victory for you if you 
will only believe.” But I could not get him to believe. 
There was not an atom of faith there. He had made 
up his mind not to have anything. 

It is a blessed thing to learn that God’s word can 
never fail. Never hearken to human plans. God can 
work mightily when you persist in believing Him in 
spite of discouragements from the human standpoint. 
When I got back to the man to whom I had sent the 
post-card, he asked, “Are you ready to go now?” 

I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only 
by what I believe. I know this—no man looks at 
appearances if he believes. No man considers how he 
feels if he believes. The man who believes God has it. 


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Every man who comes into the Pentecostal condition 
can laugh at all things and believe God. There is 
something in the Pentecostal work that is different 
from anything else in the world. Somehow, in Pente¬ 
cost, you know that God is a reality. Wherever the 
Holy Ghost has right of way, the gifts of the Spirit 
will be in manifestation; and where these gifts are 
never in manifestation, I question whether He is pres¬ 
ent. Pentecostal people are spoiled for anything else 
than Pentecostal meetings. We want none of the 
entertainments that the churches are offering. When 
God comes in He entertains us Himself. Entertained 
by the King of kings and Lord of lords! O, it is 
wonderful. 

There were difficult conditions in that Welsh vil¬ 
lage, and it seemed impossible to get the people to be¬ 
lieve. “Ready to go home?” I was asked. But a man 
and a woman there asked us to come and stay with 
them. I said, “I want to know how many of you peo¬ 
ple can pray.” No one wanted to pray. I asked if I 
could get seven people to pray with me for the poor 
man’s deliverance. I said to the two people who were 
going to entertain us, “I will count on you two, and 
there is my friend and myself, and we need three oth¬ 
ers.” I told the people that I trusted that some of 
them would awaken to their privilege and come in 
the morning and join us in prayer for the raising of 
Lazarus. It will never do to give way to human 
opinions. If God says a thing, you are to believe it. 

I told the people that I would not eat anything that 
night. When I got to bed it seemed as if the devil 
tried to place on me everything that he had placed on 
that poor man in the bed. When I awoke I had a 
cough and all the weakness of a tubercular patient. 

I rolled out of bed on to the floor and cried out to 
God to deliver me from the power of the devil. I 
shouted loud enough to wake everybody in the 
house, but nobody was disturbed. God gave victory, 
and I got back into bed again as free as ever I was 
in my life. At 5 o’clock the Lord awakened me and 


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29 


said to me, “Don’t break bread until you break it 
round My table.” At 6 o’clock He gave me these 
words, “And I will raise him up.” I put my elbow 
into the fellow who was sleeping with me. He said, 
“Ugh!” I put my elbow into him again and said, 
“Do you hear? The Lord says that He will raise 
him up.” 

At 8 o’clock they said to me, “Have a little re¬ 
freshment.” But I have found prayer and fasting the 
greatest joy, and you will always find it so when you 
are led by God. When we went to the house where 
Lazarus lived there were eight of us altogether. No 
one can prove to me that God does not always an¬ 
swer prayer. He always does more than that. He 
always gives the exceedingly abundant above all we 
ask or think. 

I shall never forget how the power of God fell on us 
as we went into that sick man’s room. O, it was 
lovely! As we circled round the bed I got one brother 
to hold one of the sick man’s hands and I held the 
other; and we each held the hand of the person next 
to us. I said, “We are not going to pray, we are just 
going to use the name of Jesus.” We all knelt down 
and whispered that one word, “Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!” 
The power of God fell and then it lifted. Five times 
the power of God fell and then it remained. But the 
person who was in the bed was unmoved. Two years 
previous someone had come along and had tried to 
raise him up, and the devil had used his lack of suc¬ 
cess as a means of discouraging Lazarus. I said, “I 
don’t care what the devil says; if God says he will 
raise you up it must be so. Forget everything else 
except what God says about Jesus.” 

The sixth time the power fell and the sick man’s 
lips began moving and the tears began to fall. I said 
to him, “The power of God is here, it is yours to ac¬ 
cept it.” He said, “I have been bitter in my heart, 
and I know I have grieved the Spirit of God. Here 
I am helpless. I cannot lift my hands, nor even lift 
a spoon to my mouth.” I said, “Repent, and God will 


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hear you.” He repented and cried out, “O God, let 
this be to Thy glory.” As he said this the virtue of 
the Lord went right through him. 

I ha've asked the Lord to never let me tell this story 
except as it was, for I realize that God can not bless 
exaggerations. As we again said, “Jesus! Jesus! 
Jesus!” the bed shook, and the man shook. I said to 
the people that were with me, “You can all go down 
stairs right away. This is all God. I’m not going to 
assist him.” I sat and watched that man get up and 
dress himself. We sang the doxology as he walked 
down the steps. I said to him, “Now tell what has 
happened.” 

It was soon noised abroad that Lazarus had been 
raised up and the people came from Llanelly and all 
the district round to see him and hear his testimony. 
And God brought salvation to many. This man told 
right out in the open air what God had done, and as 
a result many were convicted and converted. All this 
came through the name of Jesus, through faith in His 
name, yea, the faith that is by Him gave this sick 
man perfect soundness in the presence of them all. 

Peter and John were helpless, were illiterate, 
they had no college education. They had been 
with Jesus. To them had come a wonderful revelation 
of the power of the name of Jesus. They had handed 
out the bread and fish after Jesus had multiplied them. 
They had sat at the table with Him, and John had 
often gazed into His face. Peter had often to be re¬ 
buked, but Jesus manifested His love to Peter through 
it all. Yea, He loved Peter, the wayward one. O, 
He’s a wonderful lover! I have been wayward, I 
have been stubborn, I had an unmanagable temper 
at one time, but how patient He has been. I am here 
to tell you that there is power in Jesus and in His 
wondrous name to transform anyone, to heal anyone. 

If you will see Him as God’s Lamb, as God’s be¬ 
loved Son who had laid upon Him the iniquity of us 
all, if only you will see that Jesus paid the whole price 
for our redemption that we might be free, you can 


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31 


enter into your purchased inheritance of salvation, of 
life and of power. 

Poor Peter, and poor John! They had no money.! 
But they had faith, they had the power of the Holy 
Ghost, they had God. You can have God even though 
you have nothing else. Even though you have lost 
your character you can have God. I have seen the 
worst men saved by the power of God. 

I was one day preaching about the name of Jesus 
and there was a man leaning against a lamp-post, lis¬ 
tening. It took a lamp-post to enable him to keep on 
his feet. We had finished our open-air meeting, and the 
man was still leaning against the post. I asked him, 
“Are you sick?” He showed me his hand and I saw 
beneath his coat, he had a silver handled dagger. 
He told me that he was on his way to kill his unfaith¬ 
ful wife, but that he had heard me speaking about 
the power of the name of Jesus and could not get 
away. He said that he felt just helpless. I said, 
“Get you down.” And there on the square, with peo¬ 
ple passing up and down, he got saved. 

I took him to my home and put on him a new suit. 
I saw that there was something in that man that God 
could use. He said to me the next morning, “God has 
revealed Jesus to me; I see that all has been laid upon 
Jesus.” I lent him some money, and he soon got 
together a wonderful little home. His faithless wife 
was living with another man, but he invited her back 
to the home that he had prepared for her. She came: 
and, where enmity and hatred had been before, the 
whole situation was transformed by love. God made 
that man a minister wherever he went. There is 
power in the name of Jesus everywhere. God can 
save to the uttermost. 

There comes before me a meeting we had in Stock¬ 
holm that I shall ever bear in my mind. There was 
a home for incurables there and one of the inmates 
was brought to the meeting. He had palsy and was 
shaking all over. He stood up before 3,000 people 
and came to the platform, supported by two others. 


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The power of God fell on him as I anointed him in 
the name of Jesus. The moment I touched him he 
dropped his crutch and began to walk in the name of 
Jesus. He walked down the steps and round that 
great building in view of all the people. There is 
nothing that our God cannot do. He will do every¬ 
thing if you will dare to believe. 

Someone said to me, “Will you go to this Home for 
Incurables ?” They took me there on my rest day. 
They brought out the sick people into a great corri¬ 
dor and in one hour the Lord set about twenty of 
them free. 

The name of Jesus is so marvelous. Peter and John 
had no conception of all that was in that name; nei¬ 
ther had the man, lame from his mother’s womb, who 
was laid daily at the gate; but they had faith to say, 
“In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and 
walk.” And as Peter took him by the right hand, and 
lifted him up, immediately his feet and ankle bones 
received strength, and he went into the temple with 
them, walking and leaping and praising God. God 
wants you to see more of this sort of thing done. 
How can it be done? Through His name, through 
faith in His name, through faith which is by Him. 


REVIVALS IN SCANDANAVIA 
The writer had the privilege for three months last 
year to be in the center of Mr. Smith Wigglesworth’s 
meetings in both Sweden and Denmark. It was a 
time of visitation from on high. I dare to say that 
hundreds of people received Jesus as their Saviour, 
thousands were healed from all kinds of diseases, also 
thousands of believers awoke to a new life, and many, 
many received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost as on 
the day of Pentecost. For all this we give glory to 
Jesus. Here are a few examples of miracles my eyes 
have seen. 

It was in Orebro (Sweden) where at that time there 
was held a Pentecostal Convention. I came to seek 
help myself, being worn out with long, unbroken serv- 



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33 


ice in the Lord’s work. The next day there was a 
meeting for healing. After the preaching service I 
went forward into the other hall and I was surprised 
to find in a few minutes a crowd following. The hall 
was soon full with hundreds of men and women pa¬ 
tiently waiting for a touch of God through His serv¬ 
ant, and, glory to God, we were not disappointed. As 
hands were laid upon me the power of God went 
through me in a mighty way. I was immediately well. 

It was wonderful to notice, as the ministry contin¬ 
ued, the effect upon the people as the power of the 
Lord came over them. Some lifted their hands, cry¬ 
ing, “I am healed! I am healed!” Some fell on the 
platform overpowered by the power of the Spirit, hav¬ 
ing to be helped down. Others walked away as in 
a dream; others as drunk with new wine, lost to every¬ 
thing but God; but all had faces as transfigured with 
the glory of the Lord and magnifying Jesus. A young 
blind girl, as she was ministered to, cried out, “Oh, 
how many windows there are in this hall!” During 
the three weeks the meeting continued the great 
chapel was crowded daily, multitudes being healed 
and many saved. The testimony meetings were won¬ 
derful. One said, “I was deaf, they prayed, and Jesus 
healed me.” Another, “I had consumption, and I am 
free.” And so on. 

At Skofde, in the smaller hall, set apart for those 
seeking the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, I shall never 
forget the sight, how the people with eyes closed 
and hearts uplifted to God waited. Did the Holy 
Spirit fall upon them? Of course He did. Here also 
many were healed. At another place there was a 
young man whose body was spoiled because of sin, 
but the Lord is merciful with sinners. He was anoint¬ 
ed, and when hands were laid on, the power of God 
went mightily over him. He said, “I am healed,” but 
being broken down, he cried as a little child, con¬ 
fessing his sin; at the same moment the Lord saved 
him. Glory to God! He went into the large hall and 
testified to salvation and healing. 


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At Stockholm, long queues waited for hours to get 
in. The hall held 1,800 people. At nearly every meet¬ 
ing crowds were unable to enter the building, but they 
waited on,often hours and hours, for the chance, if 
any left the building to step into the place. Here a 
man with two crutches, his whole body shaking with 
palsy, is lifted onto the platform. (Behind him five 
or six hundred more are waiting for help.) This man 
is anointed and hands laid upon him in the Name of 
Jesus. He is still shaking. Then he drops one crutch, 
and after a short time the other one. His body is still 
shaking, but he takes the first step out IN FAITH. 
Will it be? He lifts one foot and then the other, 
walks round the platform. The onlookers rejoice with 
him. Now he walks around the auditorium. Hal¬ 
lelujah ! 

During this meeting a woman began to shout and 
shout. The preacher told her to be quiet, but instead 
she jumped up on a chair, flourishing her arms about, 
and crying, “I am healed! I am healed! I had can¬ 
cer in my mouth, and I was unsaved; but during the 
meeting, as I listened to the Word of God, the Lord 
has saved me and healed me of cancer in my mouth.” 
She shouts again, “I am saved! I am saved! I am 
healed of cancer!” She was quite beside herself. The 
people laughed and cried together. 

Here was another woman unable to walk, sitting 
on a chair as she was ministered to. Her experience 
was the same as hundreds of others. She rose up, 
looking around, wondering if after all it was a dream. 
Suddenly she laughed and said, “My leg is healed. ,, 
Afterwards she said, “I am not saved,” and streams of 
tears ran down her face. They prayed for her, and 
later she left the meeting healed and saved and full 
of joy. We have a wonderful Saviour; glory to His 
Holy Name! 

Out of many, many miracles in Norway, I quote 
two taken from Pastor Barratt’s paper, “Korsets Seir” 
(the Victory of the Cross). A man and his son came 
in a taxi to the meeting. Both had crutches. The fa- 


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ther had been in bed two years and was unable to 
put his leg to the ground. He was ministered to. He 
dropped both crutches, walking and praising God. 
When the son saw this he cried out, “Help me too/’ 
and after a little while the father and son, without 
crutches and without taxi, walked away from the hall 
together. That word again is manifested; the same 
Jesus, the wonder-working Jesus is just the same 
today. 

Now Copenhagen, my homeland! During three 
weeks thousands daily attended the meetings. Each 
morning two or three hundred were ministered to for 
healing. Each evening the platform was surrounded. 
Again and again, as each throng retired another com¬ 
pany came forward seeking salvation. Here many 
were baptized in the Holy Ghost. The testimony 
meetings were wonderful. 

Now I will close with a vision a brother had who 
attended these meetings. He was lost in intercession 
for the hundreds of sick waiting to be ministered to 
for healing. He saw an opening from the platform, 
where the sick were, right into the glory. He saw 
wonderful beings in the form of men resting who, 
with interest, looked on. Again he looked at the plat¬ 
form and saw a heavenly Being clothed in white, who 
all the time was more active than any other in helping 
the sick, and when HE touched them the effect was 
wonderful. Bent forms were made straight, their 
eyes shone, they began to glorify and praise the Lord. 
A Voice said: “Healings are the smallest of the gifts; 
it is but a drop in the bucket in view of what God has 
in store for His children. Ye shall do greater works 
than these.” 

I pray that the Lord may be magnified by this at¬ 
testation to signs, wonders,and mighty deeds, and that 
there may be a multiplication in every land that shall 
redound to the glory of God.—Anna Lewini in “Con¬ 
fidence.” 


CHAPTER IV 

WILT THOU BE MADE WHOLE? 

Read John 5:1-24 

I believe the word of God is so powerful that it can 
transform any and every life. There is power in God’s 
word to make that which does not appear to appear. 
There is executive power in the word that proceeds 
from His lips. The psalmist tells us, “He sent His 
word and healed them” (Ps. 107:20) ; and do you think 
that word has diminished in its power? I tell you nay, 
but God’s word can bring things to pass today as of 
old. 

The psalmist said, “Before I was afflicted I went 
astray; but now have I kept Thy word.” And again, 
“It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I 
might learn Thy statutes” (Ps. 119:67, 71). And if 
our afflictions will bring us to the place where we 
see that we cannot live by bread alone, but must par¬ 
take of every word that proceedeth out of the mouth 
of God, they will have served a blessed purpose. But 
I want you to realize that there is a life of purity, a 
life made clean through the word He has spoken, in 
which, through faith, you can gloryify God with a 
body that is free from sickness, as well as with a spirit 
set free from the bondage of Satan. 

Here they lay, a great multitude of impotent folk, 
of blind, halt, withered, around that pool, waiting for 
the moving of the water. Did Jesus heal everybody? 
He left many around that pool unhealed. There were 
doubtless many who had their eyes on the pool and 
who had no eyes for Jesus. There are many today 
who have their confidence all the time in things seen. 
If they would only get their eyes on God instead of 
on natural things, how quickly they would be helped. 


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The question arises, Is salvation and healing for all? 
It is for all who will press right in and get their por¬ 
tion. You remember the case of that Syrophenician 
woman who wanted the devil cast out of her daughter. 
Jesus said to her, ‘‘Let the children first be filled: for 
it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast 
it unto the dogs.” Note, healing and deliverance are 
here spoken of by the Master as “the children’s 
bread;” so, if you are a child of God, you can surely 
press in for your portion. 

The Syrophenician woman (Mark 7:24-30) purposed 
to get from the Lord what she was after, and she 
said, “Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of 
the children’s crumbs.” Jesus was stirred as He saw 
the faith of this woman, and He told her, “For this 
saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daugh¬ 
ter.” Today there are many children of God refusing 
their blood-purchased portion of health in Christ and 
are throwing it away, while sinners are pressing 
through and picking it up from under the table, as it 
were, and are finding the cure not only for their bod¬ 
ies, but for their spirits and souls as well. The Syro¬ 
phenician woman went home and found that the devil 
had indeed gone out of her daughter. Today there is 
bread, there is life, there is health for every child of 
God through His all-powerful Word. 

The Word can drive every disease away from your 
body. It is your portion in Christ who Himself is 
our bread, our life, our health, our all in all. And 
though you may be deep in sin, you can come to Him 
in repentance, and He will forgive and cleanse and 
heal you. His words are spirit and life to those who 
will receive them. There is a promise in the last verse 
in Joel, “I will cleanse their blood that I have not 
cleansed.” This is as much as to say He will provide 
new life within. The life of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, 
can so purify men’s hearts and minds that they be¬ 
come entirely transformed, spirit, soul and body. 

There they are round the pool; and this man.had 
been there a long time. His infirmity was of thirty- 


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eight years standing. Now and again an opportunity 
would come, as the angel stirred the waters, but his 
heart would be made sick as he saw another step in 
and be healed before him. But one day Jesus was 
passing that way, and seeing him lying there in that 
sad condition, enquired, “Wilt thou be made whole?” 
Jesus said it, and His word is from everlasting to 
everlasting. This is His word to you, poor, tried and 
tested one today. You may say, like this poor impo¬ 
tent man, “I have missed every opportunity up till 
now.” Never mind about that—Wilt thou be made 
whole ? 

I visited a woman who had been suffering for many 
years. She was all twisted up with rheumatism and 
had been two years in bed. I said to her, “What 
makes you lie here?” She said, “I’ve come to the con¬ 
clusion that I have a thorn in the flesh.” I said, “To 
what wonderful degree of righteousness have you at¬ 
tained that you have to have a thorn in the flesh? 
Have you had such an abundance of divine revelations 
that there is danger of your being exalted above meas¬ 
ure?” She said, “I believe it is the Lord who is 
causing me to suffer.” I said, “You believe it is the 
Lord’s will for you to suffer, and you are trying to 
get out of it as quickly as you can. There are doctor’s 
bottles all over the place. Get out of your hiding- 
place and confess that you are a sinner. If you’ll get 
rid of your self-righteousness, God will do something 
for you. Drop the idea that you are so holy that God 
has got to afflict you. Sin is the cause of your sick¬ 
ness and not righteousness. Disease is not caused by 
righteousness, but by sin.” 

There is healing through the blood of Christ and 
deliverance for every captive. God never intended 
His children to live in misery because of some afflic¬ 
tion that comes directly from the devil. A perfect 
atonement was made at Calvary. I believe that Jesus 
bore my sins, and I am free from them all. I am jus¬ 
tified from all things if I dare believe. He Himself 


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took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses; and if I 
dare believe, I can be healed. 

See this poor, helpless man at the pool. “Wilt thou 
be made whole?” But there is a difficulty in the way. 
The man has one eye on the pool and one on Jesus. 
There are many people getting cross-eyed this way 
these days; they have one eye on the doctor and one 
on Jesus. If you will only look to Christ and put 
both your eyes on Him you can be made every whit 
whole, spirit, soul and body. It is the word of the liv¬ 
ing God that they that believe should be justified, 
made free from all things. And whom the Son sets 
free is free indeed. 

You say, “Oh, if I only could believe!” He under¬ 
stands. Jesus knew he had been a long time in that 
case. He is full of compassion. He knows that kid¬ 
ney trouble, He knows those corns, He knows that 
neuralgia. There is nothing He does not know. He 
only wants a chance to show Himself merciful and 
gracious to you. But He wants to encourage you to 
believe Him. If thou canst only believe, thou canst 
be saved and healed. Dare to believe that Jesus was 
wounded for your transgressions, was bruised for 
your iniquities, was chastized that you might have 
peace, and that by His stripes there is healing for you 
right here and now. You have failed because you 
have not believed Him. Cry out to Him even now, 
“Lord, I believe, help Thou mine unbelief.” 

I was in Long Beach, California, one day, and with 
a friend, was passing a hotel. He told me of a doctor 
there who had a diseased leg; that he had been suffer¬ 
ing from it for six years, and could not get out. We 
went up to his room and found four doctors there. 
I said, “Well, doctor, I see you have plenty on, I’ll 
call again another day.” I was passing at another 
time, and the Spirit said, “Go join thyself to him.” 
Poor doctor! He surely was in a bad condition. He 
said, “I have been like this for six years, and nothing 
human can help me.” I said, “You need God Al¬ 
mighty.” People are trying to patch up their lives; 


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but you cannot do anything without God. I talked 
to him for awhile about the Lord, and then prayed 
for him. I cried, “Come out of him, in the name of 
Jesus.” The doctor cried, “It’s all gone!” 

Oh, if we only knew Jesus! One touch of His 
mightiness meets the need of every crooked thing. 
The trouble is to get people to believe Him. The sim¬ 
plicity of this salvation is so wonderful. One touch 
of living faith in Him is all that is required, and 
wholeness is your portion. 

I was in Long Beach about six weeks later, and the 
sick were coming for prayer. Among those filling up 
the aisle was the doctor. I said, “What is the trou¬ 
ble?” He said, “Diabetes, but it will be all right to¬ 
night. I know it will be all right.” There is no such 
thing as the Lord not meeting your need. There are 
no “if’s” or “may’s;” His promises are all “shall’s.” 
All things are possible to him that believeth. Oh, the 
name of Jesus! There is power in that name to meet 
every condition of human need. 

At that meeting there was an old man helping his 
son to the altar. He said, “He has fits—many every 
day.” Then there was a woman with a cancer. Oh, 
what sin has done! We read that, when God brought 
forth His people from Egypt, “there was not one 
feeble person among their tribes” (Ps. 105:37). No 
disease! All healed by the power of God! I believe 
that God wants a people like that today. 

I prayed for the sister who had the cancer and she 
said, “I know I’m free and that God has delivered me.” 
Then they brought the boy with the fits, and I com¬ 
manded the evil spirits to leave, in the name of Jesus. 
Then I prayed for the doctor. At the next night’s 
meeting the house was full. I called out, “Now, doc¬ 
tor, what about the diabetes?” He said, “It has gone.* 
Then I said to the old man, “What about your son?” 
He said, “He hasn’t had any fits since.” We have a 
God who answers prayer. 

Jesus meant this man at the pool to be a testimony 
forever. When he had both eyes on Jesus, He said 


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to him, “Do the impossible thing. Rise, take up thy 
bed, and walk.” Jesus called on the man with the 
withered hand to do the impossible—to stretch forth 
his hand. The man did the impossible thing — he 
stretched out his hand, and it was made every whit 
whole. And so with this impotent man—he began to 
rise, and he found the power of God moving within. 
He wrapped up his bed^nd began to walk off. It was 
the sabbath day, and there were some of those folks 
around who think much more of a day than they do 
of the Lord; and they began to make a fuss. When 
the power of God is in manifestation, a protest will 
always come from some hypocrites. Jesus knew all 
about what the man was going through, and met him 
again; and this time He said to him, “Behold, thou 
art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come 
unto thee.” 

There is a close relationship between sin and sick¬ 
ness. How many know that their sickness is a direct 
result of sin? I hope that no one will come to be 
prayed for who is living in sin. But if you will obey 
God and repent of your sin and quit it, God will meet 
you, and neither your sickness nor your sin will re¬ 
main. “The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and 
the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed 
sins, they shall be forgiven him.” 

Faith is just the open door through which the Lord 
comes. Do not say, “I was healed by faith.” Faith 
does not save. God saves through that open door. 
Healing comes the same way. You believe, and the 
virtue of Christ comes. Healing is for the glory of 
God. I am here because God healed me when I was 
dying; and I have been all round the world preaching 
this full redemption, doing all I can to bring glory to 
the wonderful name of Jesus, through whom I was 
healed. 

“Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon thee.” 
The Lord told us in one place about an evil spirit go¬ 
ing out from a man. The house that he left got all 
swept and garnished, but it received no new occu- 


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pant. And that evil spirit, with seven other spirits 
more wicked than himself, went back to that unoc¬ 
cupied house, and the last stage of the man was worse 
than the first. The Lord does not heal you to go to 
a baseball game or to a race meeting. He heals you 
for His glory and that from henceforth your life shall 
glorify Him. But this man remained stationary. He 
did not magnify God. He did not seek to be filled 
with the Spirit. And his last state became worse than 
the first. 

The Lord would so cleanse the motives and desires 
of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, 
and that is, His glory. I went to a certain place one 
day and the Lord said, “This is for My glory.” A 
young man had been sick for a long time confined to 
his bed in an utterly hopeless condition. He was fed 
only with a spoon, and was never dressed. The wea¬ 
ther was damp, and so I said to the people of the 
house, “I wish you would put the young man’s clothes 
by the fire to air.” At first they would not take any 
notice of my request, but because I was persistent, 
they at last got out his clothes, and, when they were 
aired, I took them into his room. 

The Lord said to me, “You will have nothing to da 
with this;” and I just lay out prostrate on the floor. 
The Lord showed me that He was going to shake the 
place with His glory. The very bed shook. I laid 
my hands on the young man in the name of Jesus, and 
the power fell in such a way that I fell with my face 
to the floor. In about a quarter of an hour the young 
man got up and walked up and down praising God.” 
He dressed himself and then went out to the room 
where his father and mother were. He said, “God 
has healed me.” Both the father and mother fell 
prostrate to the floor as the power of God surged 
through that room. There was a woman in that house 
who had been in an asylum for lunacy, and her condi¬ 
tion was so bad that they were about to take her 
back. But the power of God healed her, too. The 
power of God is just the same today as of old. Men 


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need to be taken back to the old paths, to the old- 
time faith, to believe God’s Word and every “Thus 
saith the Lord” therein. The Spirit of the Lord is 
moving in these days. God is coming forth. If you 
want to be in the rising tide, you must accept all 
God has said. 

“Wilt thou be made whole?” It is Jesus who says 
it. Give Him your answer. He will hear and He will 
answer. 


BLESSING IN AUSTRALIA 

The following is from Melbourne, Australia, from 
Sister Winnie Andrews, in connection with Brother 
Wigglesworth’s minstry there: 

A young woman declares: “I was brought to last 
Sunday’s meeting a poor, dying woman, with a disease 
which was eating into every part of my being. I was 
full of corruption outside as well as in; but the Lord 
Jesus Christ came and loosed me and set me free. 
Since then I have slept better and have eaten more 
heartily than I have for eight years.” 

The president of the Methodist Local Preachers’ 
Association testified to having been delivered from 
nervous trouble. 

Mr. Solglush, a prominent business man, testified 
to deliverance from an affliction in the feet since he 
was two years old; now he is fifty-two. “Since I was 
prayed for in the name of Jesus all pain is gone. No 
one has ever seen me do this (stamping his feet). 
I have no use for my stick.” 

A lady said: “While sitting in my seat, listening to 
the Word, God healed me of liver trouble, gall stones, 
and sciatica. He has also touched my daughter who 
was suffering with her feet, having been operated on 
twice; she had little hope of being anything but an 
invalid;-but the Lord operated. All pain has gone. 
Praise the Lord. 

Mr. Lewellyn, a Church of England “Reader,’ tes¬ 
tified to having been immediately healed of a stiff 
knee. 



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Mr. Barrett testified that Miss Witt, of Box Hill, 
who has been 22 years in an invalid chair, rose and 
walked after Mr. Wigglesworth ministered unto her 
in the name of Jesus. 

Another testified of having been healed the night 
before of rheumatoid arthritis of four years standing, 
discarding crutch and stick. 

Mr. Johnsone of Sperm Vale, who had been deaf 
twenty years, and his wife, who had sat in a wheel¬ 
chair for six years, were immediately healed. The 
empty chair was wheeled to the railway station, the 
woman testifying to passersby of the great things 
God had done for her. 

Many were healed through the application of hand¬ 
kerchiefs.—From the Pentecostal Evangel. 


CHAPTER V 


I AM THE LORD THAT HEALETH THEE 

“Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders 
of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing 
with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of 
faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him 
up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be for¬ 
given him” (James 5:14, 15). 

We have in this precious word a real basis for the 
truth of healing. In this scripture God gives very 
definite instructions to the sick. If you are sick, your 
part is to call for the elders of the church; it is their 
part to anoint and pray for you in faith, and then the 
whole situation rests with the Lord. When you have 
been anointed and prayed for, you can rest assured 
that the Lord will raise you up. It is the word of 
God. 

I believe that we all can see that the church can¬ 
not play with this business. If any turn away from 
these clear instructions they are in a place of tre¬ 
mendous danger. Those who refuse to obey, do so to 
their unspeakable loss. 

James tells us in connection with this, “If any of 
you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let 
him know, that he which converteth the sinner from 
the error of his ways shall save a soul from death.” 
Many turn away from the Lord, as did King Asa, who 
sought the physicians in his sickness and consequently 
died; and I take it that this passage means that if one 
induces another to turn back to the Lord, he will 
save such from death and God will forgive a multi¬ 
tude of sins that they have committed. This scripture 
can also have a large application on the line of sal- 

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vation. If you turn away from any part of God’s 
truth, the enemy will certainly get an advantage over 
you. 

Does the Lord meet those who look to Him for 
healing and obey the instructions set forth in James? 
Most assuredly. Let me tell you a story to show 
how He will undertake for the most extreme case. 

One day I had been visiting the sick, and was with 
a friend of mine, an architect, when I saw a young 
man from his office coming down the road in a car, 
and holding in his hand a telegram. It contained a 
very urgent request that we go immediately to pray 
for a man who was dying. We went off in an auto 
as fast as possible and in about an hour and a half 
reached a large house in the country where the man 
who was dying resided. There were two staircases in 
that house, and it was extremely convenient, for the 
doctors could go up and down one, and my friend and 
I could go up and down the other, and so we had no 
occasion to meet. 

I found on arrival that it was a case of this sort. 
The man’s body had been broken, he was ruptured, 
and his bowels had been punctured in two places. The 
discharge from the bowels had formed abscesses, and 
blood poisoning had set in. The man’s face had turn¬ 
ed green. Two doctors were in attendance, but they 
saw that the case was beyond their power. They had 
telegraphed to London for a great specialist, and, 
when we arrived, they were at the railway station 
awaiting his arrival. 

The man was very near death and could not speak. 
I said to his wife, ‘‘If you desire, we will anoint and 
pray for him.” She said, “That is why I sent for you.” 
I anointed him in the name of the Lord and asked 
the Lord to raise him up. Apparently there was no 
change. (God often hides what He does. From day 
to day we find that God is doing wonderful things, 
and we receive reports of healings that have taken 
place that we heard nothing about at the time of our 
meetings. Only last night a woman came into the 


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meeting suffering terribly. Her whole arm was filled 
with poison, and her blood was so poisoned that it was 
certain to bring her to her death. We rebuked the 
thing, and she was here this morning and told us that 
she was without pain and had slept all night, a thing 
she had not done for two months. To God be all the 
praise. You will find He will do this kind of thing all 
along.) 

As soon as we anointed and prayed for this brother 
we went down the back staircase and the three doc¬ 
tors came up the front staircase. As we arrived 
downstairs, I said to my friend who had come with 
me, “Friend let me have hold of your hands/’ We 
held each other’s hands, and I said to him, “Look into 
my face and let us agree together, according to Mat¬ 
thew 18:19, that this man shall be brought out of this 
death.” We laid the whole matter before God, and 
said, “Father, we believe.” 

Then the conflict began. The wife came down to 
us and said, “The doctors have got all their instru¬ 
ments out and they are about to operate.” I cried, 
“What? Look here, he’s your husband, and I tell you 
this, if those men operate on him, he will die. Go 
back and tell them you cannot allow it.” She went 
back to the doctors and said, “Give me ten minutes.” 
They said, “We can’t afford to, the man is dying and 
it is your husband’s only chance.” She said, “I want 
ten minutes, and you don’t touch his body until I have 
had them.” 

They went downstairs by one staircase and we went 
up by the other. I said to the woman, “This man is 
your husband, and he cannot speak for himself. It is 
now the time for you to put your whole trust in God 
and prove Him wholly true. You can save him from 
a thousand doctors. You must stand with God and 
for God in this critical hour.” After that, we came 
down and the doctors went up. The wife faced those 
three doctors and said, “You shan’t touch this man s 
body. He is my husband. I am sure that if you 


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operate on him he will die, but he will live if you don’t 
touch him.” 

Suddenly the man in the bed spoke. “God has 
done it,” he said. They rolled back the bed clothes 
and the doctors examined him, and the abscesses were 
cut clear away. The nurse cleaned the place where 
they had been. The doctors could see the bowels still 
open and they said to the wife, “We know that you 
have great faith, and we can see that a miracle has 
taken place. But you must let us unite these broken 
parts and put in silver tubes, and we know that your 
husband will be all right after that, and it need not 
interfere with your faith at all.” She said to them, 
“God has done the first thing and He can do the rest. 
No man shall touch him now.” And God healed the 
whole thing. And that man is well and strong today. 
I can give his name and address to any who want it. 

Do you ask by what power this was done? I 
would answer in the words of Peter, “His name, 
through faith in His name, made this man strong/' 
The anointing was done in the name of the Lord. 
And it is written, “The LORD shall raise him up.” 
And He provides the double cure; even if sin has 
been the cause of the sickness, His Word declares, 
“If he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven.” 

You ask, “What is faith?” Faith is the principle 
of the Word of God. The Holy Spirit, who inspired 
the Word, is called the Spirit of Truth, and, as we re¬ 
ceive with meekness the engrafted Word, faith springs 
in our heart—faith in the sacrifice of Calvary: faith in 
the shed blood of Jesus; faith in the fact that He took 
our weakness upon Himself, has borne our sicknesses 
and carried our pains, and that He is our life today. 

God has chosen us to help one another. We dare 
not be independent. He brings us to a place where 
we submit ourselves to one another. If we refuse to 
do this, we get away from the Word of God and out 
of the place of faith. I have been in this place once 
and I trust I shall never be there again. I went one 
time to a meeting. I was very, very sick, and I got 


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worse and worse. I knew the perfect will of God 
was for me to humble myself and ask the elders to 
pray for me. I put it off and the meeting finished. I 
went home without being anointed and prayed with, 
and everyone in the house caught the thing I was 
suffering with. 

My boys did not know anything else but to trust 
the Lord as the family Physician, and my youngest 
boy, George, cried out from the attic, “Dadda, come/’ 
I cried, “I cannot come. The whole thing is from 
me. I shall have to repent and ask the Lord to for¬ 
give me/’ I made up my mind to humble myself be¬ 
fore the whole church. Then I rushed to the attic and 
laid my hands on my boy in the name of Jesus. I 
placed my hands on his head and the pain left and 
went lower down; he cried again, “Put your hands 
still lower.” At last the pain went right down to the 
feet and as I placed my hand on the feet he was com¬ 
pletely delivered. Some evil power had evidently got¬ 
ten hold and as I laid my hands on the different parts 
of the body it left. (We have to see the difference be¬ 
tween anointing the sick and casting out demons.) 
God will always be gracious when we humble our¬ 
selves before Him and come to a place of brokenness 
of spirit. 

I was at a place one time ministering to a sick wom¬ 
an, and she said, “Pm very sick. I become all right 
for an hour, and then I have another attack.” I saw 
that it was an evil power that was attacking her, and 
I learned something in that hour that I had never 
learned before. As I moved my hand down her body 
in the name of the Lord that evil power seemed to 
move just ahead of my hands and as I moved them 
down further and further the evil power went right 
out of her body and never returned. 

I was in Havre in France and the power of God was 
being mightily manifested. A Greek named Felix at¬ 
tended the meeting and became very zealous for God. 
He was very anxious to get all the Catholics he could 
to the meeting in order that they should see that God 


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was graciously visiting France. He found a certain 
bed-ridden woman who was fixed in a certain position 
and could not move, and he told her about the Lord 
healing at the meetings and that he would get me 
to come if she wished. She said, “My husband is a 
Catholic and he would never allow anyone who was 
not a Catholic to see me.” 

She asked her husband to allow me to come and 
told him what Felix had told her about the power of 
God working in our midst. He said, “I will have no 
Protestant enter my house.” She said, “You know the 
doctors cannot help me, and the priests cannot help, 
won’t you let this man of God pray for me?” He 
finally consented and I went to the house. The sim¬ 
plicity of this woman and her child-like faith were 
beautiful to see. 

I showed her my oil bottle and said to her, “Here 
is oil. It is a symbol of the Holy Ghost. When that 
comes upon you, the Holy Ghost will begin to work, 
and the Lord will raise you up.” And God did some¬ 
thing the moment the oil fell upon her. I looked to¬ 
ward the window and I saw Jesus. (I have seen Him 
often. There is no painting that is a bit like Him: 
no artist can ever depict the beauty of my lovely 
Lord.) The woman felt the power of God in her 
body and cried, “I’m free, my hands are free, my 
shoulders are free, and oh, I see Jesus! I’m free! 
I’m free!” 

The vision vanished and the woman sat up in bed. 
Her legs were still bound, and I said to her, “I’ll put 
my hands over your legs and you will be free entirely.” 
And as I put my hands on those legs covered with 
bed clothes, I looked and saw the Lord again. She 
saw Him too and cried, “He’s there again. I’m free! 
I’m free!” She rose from her bed and walked round 
the room praising God, and we were all in tears as 
we saw His wonderful works. The Lord shall raise 
them up when conditions are met. 

When I was a young man I always loved the fellow¬ 
ship of old men, and was always careful to hear what 


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they had to say. I had a friend, an old Baptist min¬ 
ister who was a wonderful preacher. I spent much 
of my time with him. One day he came to me and 
said, “My wife is dying.” I said, “Brother Clark, why 
don’t you believe God? God can raise her up if you 
will only believe Him.” He asked me to come to his 
house, and I looked for some one to go with me. 

I went to a certain rich man who was very zealous 
for God, and spent much money in opening up rescue 
missions, and I asked him to go with me. He said, 
“Never you mind me. You go yourself, but I don’t 
take to this kind of business.” Then I thought of a 
man who could pray by the hour. When he was on 
his knees he could go round the world three times 
and come out at the same place. I asked him to go 
with me and said to him, “You’ll have a real chance 
this time. Keep at it, and quit when you’re through.” 
(Some go on after they are through.) 

Brother Nichols, for that was his name, went with 
me and started praying. He asked the Lord to com¬ 
fort the husband in his great bereavement and prayed 
for the orphans and a lot more on this line. I cried, 
“0 my God, stop this man.” But there was no stop¬ 
ping him and he went on praying and there was not 
a particle of faith in anything he uttered. He did stop 
at last, and I said, “Brother Clark, it’s now your turn 
to pray. He started, “Lord, answer the prayer of 
my brother and comfort me in this great bereavement 
and sorrow. Prepare me to face this great trial.” I 
cried out, “My God, stop this man.” The whole at¬ 
mosphere was being charged with unbelief. 

I had a glass bottle full of oil and I went up to 
the woman and poured the whole lot on her in the 
name of Jesus. Suddenly Jesus appeared, standing at 
the foot of the bed. He smiled and vanished. The 
woman stood up, perfectly healed, and she is a strong 
woman today. 

We have a big God. We have a wonderful Jesus. 
We have a glorious Comforter. God’s canopy is over 
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from evil. Under His wings shalt thou trust. The 
Word of God is living and powerful and in its treas¬ 
ures you will find eternal life. If you dare trust this 
wonderful Lord, this Lord of life, you will find in Him 
everything you need. 

So many are tampering with drugs, quacks, pills 
and plasters. Clear them all out and believe God. It 
is sufficient to believe God. You will find that if you 
dare trust Him, He will never fail. “The prayer of 
faith shall save the sick, and the LORD shall raise 
him up.” Do you trust Him? He is worthy to be 
trusted. 

I was one time asked to go to Weston-super-mare, 
a seaside resort in the West of England. I learned 
from a telegram that a man had lost his reason and 
had become a raving maniac, and they wanted me 
to go to pray for him. I arrived at the place, and 
the wife said to me, “Will you sleep with my hus¬ 
band?” I agreed, and in the middle of the night an 
evil power laid hold of him. It was awful. I put 
my hand on his head and his hair was like a lot of 
sticks. God gave deliverance—a temporary deliver¬ 
ance. At 6 o’clock the next morning, I felt that it 
was necessary that I should get out of the house for 
a short time. 

The man saw me going and cried out, “If you leave 
me, there is no hope.” But I felt that I had to go. 
As I went out I saw a woman with a Salvation Army 
bonnet on and I knew that she was going to their 7 
o’clock prayer meeting. I said to the Captain who 
was in charge of the meeting, when I saw he was 
about to give out a hymn, “Captain, don’t sing. Let’s 
get to prayer.” He agreed, and I prayed my heart 
out, and then I grabbed my hat and rushed out of 
the hall. They all thought they had a madman in 
their prayer meeting that morning. 

I went down to the end of the parade, and there 
was the man I had spent the night with, rushing down 
toward the sea, without a particle of clothing on, 
about to drown himself. I cried, “In the name of Je- 


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sus, come out of him.” The man fell full length on 
the ground and that evil power went out of him never 
to return. His wife came rushing after him, and the 
husband was restored to her in a perfect mental con¬ 
dition. 

There are evil powers, but Jesus is greater than 
all evil powers. There are tremendous diseases, but 
Jesus is healer. There is no case too hard for Him. 
The Lion of Judah shall break every chain. He came 
to relieve the oppressed and to set the captive free. 
He came to bring redemption, to make us as perfect 
as man was before the fall. 

People want to know how to be kept by the power 
of God. Every position of grace into which you are 
led—forgiveness, healing, deliverance of any kind— 
will be contested by Satan. He will contend for your 
body. When you are saved, Satan will come round 
and say, “See, you are not saved.” The devil is a 
liar. If he says you are not saved, it is a sure sign 
that you are. 

You will remember the story of the man who was 
swept and garnished. The evil power had been swept 
out of him. But the man remained in a stationary 
position. If the Lord heals you, you dare not remain 
in a stationary position. The evil spirit came back to 
that man and found the house swept, and took seven 
others worse than himself, and the last state of that 
man was worse than the first. Be sure and get filled 
with God. Get the Occupier. Be filled with the Spirit. 

God has a million ways of undertaking for those 
who go to Him for help. He has deliverance for every 
captive. He loves you so much that He even says, 
“Before they call, I will answer.” Don’t turn Him 
away. 


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A REMARKABLE HEALING 

I slipped and fell on Broadway, San Diego, in Feb¬ 
ruary, 1921, and as was afterwards discovered, frac¬ 
tured the coccyx (the base of the spine), and so se¬ 
verely wrenched the hips and pelvic bones that I 
became a great sufferer. As the broken bone was not 
discovered and set until about two months after the 
accident, the constant pain and irritation caused a 
general inflammation of the nervous system, and the 
long delay in getting the bone set, made it impos¬ 
sible to heal, so that, my condition steadily growing 
worse, I was taken to the hospital and the bone was 
removed about a month after it had been set. Though 
the wound healed rapidly, the nervous inflammation 
remained, and so for many months longer I was in 
constant pain and unable to get around without as¬ 
sistance. I was taken to the first service held by Mr. 
Wigglesworth on the 2nd of October, 1922. At the 
close of the service all those who were sick and in 
pain and had come for healing were requested to rise 
if possible. My husband assisted me to my feet, and 
as those were prayed for by the speaker I was in¬ 
stantly healed. How I do not know. I only know 
the Great Physician touched my body and I was made 
whole, and freed from pain. 

After I got home I showed how I could sit down 
and rise with my hands above my head; when before 
it had taken both hands to push up my feeble body, 
and I had to have straps on my bed to pull up by. No 
more use for them now! I lay down and turned over 
for the first time without pain. I shall never cease 
to praise God for the healing of my body through 
the precious blood of Jesus and in His name/ I walked 
to the street car alone the next day and attended the 
next service and have been “on the go” ever since. 
Can give names of friends who can substantiate all I 
have written. To Jesus be all the praise and glory. 
—Mrs. Sanders, 4051 Bay View Court, San Diego, 
Calif. 


CHAPTER VI 


HIMSELF TOOK OUR INFIRMITIES 

Bible reading, Matt. 8:1-17. 

Here we have a wonderful word. All the Word is 
wonderful. This blessed Book brings such life and 
health and peace, and such an abundance that we 
should never be poor any more. This Book is my 
heavenly bank. I find everything I want in it. I want 
to show you how rich you may be, that in everything 
you can be enriched in Christ Jesus. He has abun- 
ance of grace for you and the gift of righteousness, 
and through His abundant grace all things are pos¬ 
sible. I want to show you that you can be a living 
branch of the living Vine, Christ Jesus, and that it is 
your privilege to be right here in this world what He 
is. John tells us, “As He is, so are we in this world/’ 
Not that we are anything in ourselves, but Christ 
within us is our all in all. 

The Lord Jesus is always wanting to show forth 
His grace and love in order to draw us to Himself. 
God is willing to do things, to manifest His Word, 
and let us know in measure the mind of our God in 
this day and hour. There are many needy ones, many 
afflicted ones, but I do not think any present are half 
as bad as this first case that we read of in Matthew 
8. This man was a leper. You may be suffering with 
consumption or cancers or other things, but God will 
show forth His perfect cleansing, His perfect healing, 
if you have a living faith in Christ. He is a wonderful 
Jesus. 

This leper must have been told about Jesus. How 
much is missed because people are not constantly tell- 
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ing what Jesus will do in this our day. Probably 
someone had come to that leper and said, “Jesus can 
heal you.” And so he was filled with expectation as 
he saw the Lord coming 1 down the mountain side. 
Lepers were not allowed to come within reach of peo¬ 
ple, they were shut out as unclean. And so in the 
ordinary way it would have been very difficult for 
him to get near because of the crowd that surrounded 
Jesus. But as He came down from the mount He 
met, He came to the leper. Oh, this terrible disease! 
There was no help for him humanly speaking, but 
nothing is too hard for Jesus. The man cried, “Lord, 
if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.” Was Jesus 
willing? You will never find Jesus missing an op¬ 
portunity of doing good. You will find that He is 
always more willing to work than we are to give 
Him an opportunity to work. The trouble is we do 
not come to Him, we do not ask Him for what He 
is more than willing to give. 

And Jesus put forth His hand, and touched him, 
saying, “I will; be thou clean.” And immediately his 
leprosy was cleansed. I like that. If you are definite 
with Him you will never go away disappointed. The 
divine life will flow into you and instantaneously you 
will be delivered. This Jesus is just the same today, 
and He says to you, “I will; be thou clean.” He has 
an overflowing cup for thee, a fulness of life. He 
will meet you in your absolute helplessness. All things 
are possible if you will only believe. God has a real 
plan. It is so simple. Just come to Jesus. You will 
find Him just the same as He was in days of old. 

The next case we have in this chapter is that of 
the centurion coming and beseeching Jesus on behalf 
of his servant who was sick of the palsy and griev¬ 
ously tormented. This man was so in earnest that 
he came seeking for Jesus. Notice this, that there is 
one thing certain, there is no such thing as seeking 
without finding. He that seeketh findeth. Listen to 


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the gracious words of Jesus, “I will come and heal 
him.” Most places that we go to there are so many 
people that we cannot pray for. In some places there 
are 200 or 300 who would like us to visit them, but 
we are not able to do so. But I am so glad that the 
Lord Jesus is always willing to come and heal. He 
longs to meet the sick ones. He loves to heal them 
of their afflictions. The Lord is healing many people 
today by means of handkerchiefs as you read that He 
healed people in the days of Paul. You can read of 
this in Acts 19:12. 

A woman came to me in the city of Liverpool and 
said, “I would like you to help me. I wish you would 
join with me in prayer. My husband is a drunkard 
and every night comes into the home under the in¬ 
fluence of drink. Won’t you join me in prayer for 
him?” I said to the woman, “Have you a handker¬ 
chief?” She took out a handkerchief and I prayed 
over it and told her to lay it on the pillow of the 
drunken man. He came home that night and laid his 
head on the pillow in which this handkerchief was 
tucked. He laid his head on more than the pillow that 
night. He laid his head on the promise of God. In 
Mark 11:24, we read, “What things soever ye desire 
when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye 
shall have them.” 

The next morning the man got up and called at the 
first saloon that he had to pass on his way to work 
and ordered some beer. He tasted it and said to the 
bartender, “You have put some poison in this beer.” 
He could not drink it, and went on to the next saloon 
and ordered some more beer. He tasted it and said 
to the man behind the counter, “You put some poison 
in this beer, I believe you folks have agreed to poison 
me.” The bartender was indignant at being thus 
charged. The man said, “I will go somewhere else.” 
He went to another saloon and the same thing hap¬ 
pened as in the two previous saloons. He made such 


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a fuss that they turned him out. After he came out 
from work he went to another saloon to get some 
beer, and again he thought he had been poisoned and 
he made so much disturbance that he was thrown out. 
He went to his home and told his wife what had hap¬ 
pened and said, “It seems as though all the fellows 
have agreed to poison me.” His wife said to him, 
“Can’t you see the hand of the Lord in this, that He 
is making you dislike the stuff that has been your 
ruin?” This word brought conviction to the man’s 
heart and he came to the meeting and got saved. 
The Lord has still power to set the captives free. 

When I was in Australia a lady came to me who 
was much troubled about her son who was so lazy. 
I prayed over a handkerchief which was placed on the 
boy’s pillow. He slept that night on the handker¬ 
chief and the next morning he got up and went out 
and secured a position and went to work. Oh, praise 
the Lord, you can’t shut God out, but if you will only 
believe He will shut the devil out. 

Jesus was willing to go and heal the sick one but 
the centurion said, “Lord, I am not worthy that thou 
shouldst come under my roof; but speak the word 
only, and my servant shall be healed.” Jesus was de¬ 
lighted with this expression and said to the man, “Go 
thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto 
thee.” And his servant was healed the self-same 
hour. 

When I was in Australia a man came up to me. 
He was leaning on a big stick and said, “I would like 
you to help me. It will take you half an hour to pray 
for me.” I said, “Believe God and in one moment you 
will be whole.” His faith was quickened to receive 
an immediate healing and he went away glorifying 
God for a miraculous healing. The word of the Lord 
is sufficient today. If you will dare to believe God’s 
Word you will see a performance of His Word that 
will be truly wonderful. Here we have with the cen- 


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59 


turion an audacity of faith, a faith that did not limit 
God. Failures come when we limit the Holy One of 
Israel. I want to encourage you to a living faith to 
believe God’s Word. 

The next healing we read of here is the healing of 
Peter’s wife’s mother who was sick of a fever. Luke 
tells us that Jesus rebuked the fever. The fever 
could hear. The moment it could hear it went. Jesus 
had a new method. Today there are a lot of folks 
who try to sweat out a fever. You can’t sweat the 
devil out. He can stand all the heat that you can 
apply to him. But if thou canst believe, deliverance 
is as sure and certain for you as it was for Peter’s 
wife’s mother. 

I received a telegram once urging me to visit a case 
about 200 miles from my home. As I went to this 
place I met the father and mother and found them 
broken hearted. They lead me up a staircase to a 
room and I saw a young woman on the floor and five 
people were holding her down. She was a frail young 
woman but the power in her was greater than all 
those young men. As I went into the room the evil 
powers looked out of her eyes and they used her lips 
saying, “We are many, you can’t cast us out.” I said, 
“Jesus can.” He is equal to every occasion. He is 
waiting for an opportunity to bless. He is ready for 
every opportunity to deliver souls. When we receive 
Jesus it is true of us, “Greater is He that is in you 
than he that is in the world.” He is greater than all 
the powers of darkness. No man can meet the devil 
in his own strength, but any man filled with the 
knowledge of Jesus, filled with His presence, filled 
with His power, is more than a match for the pow¬ 
ers of darkness. God has called us to be more than 
conquerors through Him that loved us. 

The living Word is able to destroy Satanic forces. 
There is power in the name of Jesus. I would that 
every window in the street had the name of Jesus 


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written large upon it. His name, through faith in His 
name, brought deliverance to this poor, bound soul, 
and thirty-seven demons came out giving their names 
as they came forth. The dear woman was completely 
delivered and they were able to give her back her 
child. That night there was heaven in that home and 
the father and mother and son and his wife were all 
united in glorifying Christ for His infinite grace. The 
next morning we had a gracious time in the breaking 
of bread. All things are wonderful with our won¬ 
derful Jesus. If you would dare rest your all upon 
Him, things would take place and He would change 
the whole situation. In a moment, through the name 
of Jesus, a new order of things can be brought in. 

In the world they are always having new diseases 
and the doctors cannot locate them. A doctor said 
to me, “The science of medicine is in its infancy, and 
really we doctors have no confidence in our medicine. 
We are always experimenting.” But the man of God 
does not experiment. He knows, or ought to know, 
redemption in its fulness. He knows, or ought to 
know, the mightiness of the Lord Jesus Christ. He 
is not, or should not be, moved by outward observa¬ 
tion, but should get divine revelation of the mighti¬ 
ness of the name of Jesus and the power of His blood. 
If we exercise our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ He 
will come forth and get glory over all the powers 
of darkness. 

At eventide they brought unto Him many that were 
possessed with devils; and He cast out the spirits with 
His word and healed all that were sick: that it might 
be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, 
saying, “Himself took our infirmities, and bare our 
sicknesses.” The work is done if you only believe it. 
It is done. Himself tok our infirmities and bare our 
sickness. If you can only see the Lamb of God 
as He went to Calvary! He took our flesh that He 
might take upon Himself the full burden of all our 


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sin and all the consequences of sin. There on the 
cross God laid upon Him the iniquities of us all. There 
on the cross of Calvary the results of sin were also 
dealt with. “As the children are partakers of flesh 
and blood, he also himself took part of the same; that 
through death he might destroy him that had the 
power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them 
who through fear of death were all their life time sub¬ 
ject to bondage.” Through His death there is deliv- 
ance for you today. 


HUSBAND HEALED OF DOUBLE RUPTURE 
AND OTHER ILLS 

One year ago my husband was instantly healed of 
double rupture of 3 years’ standing, dropsy (2 years), 
a weak heart, and tobacco chewing (47 years), and 
praise the Lord, it was all taken away when the shock 
from heaven’s battery went through him. Nine weeks 
ago today we went to Portland, Oregon, to hear 
Brother Smith Wigglesworth, and my husband was 
healed instantly of heavy blood-pressure and varicose 
veins which had broken in his ankles and for a year 
had to be dressed twice a day. No doctor could help 
him, but, praise God, Jesus was the doctor and healed 
him. Should anyone wish to write me, I shall be 
glad to hear from them and will answer all letters. 
—Mrs. Frank Nephews, 202 E. 1st St., Newberg, Ore. 



CHAPTER VII 
OUR RISEN CHRIST 


Read the fourth chapter of Acts. 

Today we praise God for the fact that our glo¬ 
rious Jesus is the risen Christ. Those of us who 
have tasted the power of the indwelling Spirit know 
something of the manner in which the hearts of those 
two disciples burned as they walked to Emmaus with 
their risen Lord as their companion. 

Note the words of verse 30, “And when they had 
prayed, the place was shaken.” There are many 
churches where they never pray the kind of prayer 
that you read of here. A church that does not know 
how to pray and to shout will never be shaken. If 
you live in a place like that you may as well write 
“Ichabod — the glory of the Lord has departed”— 
over the threshold. It is only when men have learned 
the secret of prayer, of power, and of praise, that 
God comes forth. Some people say, “Well, I praise 
God inwardly,” but if there is an abundance of praise 
in your heart, your mouth cannot help speaking it. 

There was a man who had a large business in Lon¬ 
don who was a great church-goer. The church he 
attended was beautifully decorated, and his pew was 
delightfully cushioned — just about enough to make 
it easy to sleep through the sermons. He was a 
prosperous man in business, but he had no peace in 
his heart. But there was a boy at his business who 
always looked happy. He was always jumping and 
whistling. One day he said to this boy, “I want to 
see you in my office.” When the boy was in his of¬ 
fice he asked him, “How is it that you can always 
whistle and be happy?” “I cannot help it,” answered 


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the boy. “Where did you get it?” asked the master. 
“I got it at the Pentecostal mission.” “Where is 
that?” The boy told him, and the next thing was, 
that the man was attending. The Lord broke him 
up there, and in a short while he was entirely 
changed. One day, shortly after this, he found that, 
instead of being distracted by his business as he for¬ 
merly had been, he was actually whistling and jump¬ 
ing. His whole position and his whole life had been 
changed. 

The shout cannot come out unless it is in. There 
must first be the inner working of the power of God. 
It is He who changes the heart, and transforms the 
life, and before there is any real outward evidence 
there must be the inflow of divine life. Sometimes 
I say to people, “You weren’t at meeting the other 
night.” They reply, “Oh yes, I was there in spirit.” 
I say to them, “Well, come next time with your body 
also. We don’t want a lot of spirits here and no 
bodies. We want you to come and get filled with 
God.” When all the people will come and pray 
and praise as did these early disciples there will 
be something doing. People who come will catch 
fire and they will want to come again. But they will 
have no use for a place where everything has be¬ 
come formal, dry, and dead. 

The power of Pentecost as it came at first came to 
loose men. God wants us free on every line. Men 
and women are tired of imitations; they want reality; 
they want to see people who have the living Christ 
within, and are filled with Holy Ghost power. 

I received several letters and telegrams about a 
certain case, but when I arrived I was told I was too 
late. I said, “That cannot be. God has never sent 
me too late anywhere.” God showed me when I went 
that something different would happen to anything 
I had seen previously. The people I went to were 
all strangers. I was introduced to a young man who 
lay helpless, and for whom there was no hope. The 


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doctor had been to see him that morning and had 
declared that he would not live through the day. He 
lay with his face to the wall, and when I spoke to 
him he whispered, “I cannot turn over. ,, His mother 
said that they had had to lift him out of bed on 
sheets for weeks, and that he was so weak and help¬ 
less that he had to stay in one position. 

The young man said, “My heart is so weak.” I 
assured him, “God is the strength of thy heart and 
thy portion forever. If you will believe God, it shall 
be so today.” 

Our Christ is risen. He is a living Christ who in¬ 
dwells us. We must not have this truth merely as a 
theory, Christ must be risen in us by the power of 
the Spirit. The power that raised Him from the dead 
must animate us, and as this glorious resurrection 
power surges through your being, you will be freed 
from all your weaknesses and you will become strong 
in the Lord and in the power of His might. There 
is a resurrection power that God wants you to have 
and to have today. Why not? Receive your portion 
here and now. 

I said to these people, “I believe your son will rise 
today.” They only laughed. People do not expect to 
see signs and wonders today as the disciples saw 
them of old. Has God changed? Or has our faith 
waned so that we are not expecting the greater works 
that Jesus promised? We must not harp on any 
minor key. Our message must rise to concert pitch, 
and there must be nothing left out of it that is in the 
Book. 

It was winter time, and I said to the parents, “Will 
you get the boy’s suit and bring it here?” They 
would not listen to the request, for they were expect¬ 
ing the boy to die. But I had gone to that place be¬ 
lieving God. In Romans 4:17, we read of Abraham, 
“(I have made thee a father of many nations,) be¬ 
fore him whom he believed, even God, who quick- 
eneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not 


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as. though they were.” God help us to understand 
this. It is time people knew how to shout in faith 
as they contemplate the eternal power of our God 
to whom it is nothing to quicken and raise the dead. 
I come across some who would be giants in the 
power of God but they have no shout of faith. I 
find everywhere people who go down even when they 
are praying simply because they are just breathing 
sentences without uttering speech, and you cannot 
get victory that way. You must learn to take the 
victory and shout in the face of the devil, “It is 
done!” There is no man who can doubt if he learns 
to shout. When we know how to shout properly, 
things will be different, and tremendous things will 
happen. In verse 24 we read, “They lifted up their 
voice with one accord.” It surely must have been a 
loud prayer. We must know that God means us to 
have life. If there is anything in the world that has 
life in it, it is this Pentecostal revival we are in. I 
believe in the Baptism of the Holy Ghost with the 
speaking in tongues, and I believe that every man 
who is baptized in the Holy Ghost will speak in other 
tongues as the Spirit gives him utterance. I believe 
in the Holy Ghost. And if you are filled with the 
Spirit you will be superabounding in life — living 
waters will flow from you. 

At last I persuaded the parents to bring the boy’s 
clothes and lay them on the bed. From the natural 
viewpoint, the young man lay dying. I spoke to the 
afflicted one, “God has revealed to me that, as I lay 
my hands upon you, the place will be filled with the 
Holy Ghost, the bed will be shaken, you will be 
shaken and thrown out of bed by the power of the 
Holy Ghost, you will dress yourself and be strong.” 
I said this to him in faith. I laid hands on him in 
the name of Jesus and instantly the power of God 
fell and filled the place. I felt helpless and fell flat 
on the floor. I knew nothing except that a short 
while after the place was shaken, I heard the young 


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man walking over me and saying, “For Thy glory, 
Lord! For Thy glory, Lord!” 

He dressed himself and cried, “God has healed me.” 
The father fell, the mother fell, and another who was 
present fell also. God manifested His power that day 
in saving the whole household and healing the young 
man. It is the power of the risen Christ we need. 
That young man is today preaching the gospel. 

For years we have been longing for God to come 
forth, and, praise Him, He is coming forth. The tide 
is rising everywhere. I was in Switzerland not long 
ago, preaching in many places where the Pentecostal 
message had not been heard, and today there are nine 
new Pentecostal assemblies in different places going 
on blessedly for God. All over the world it is the same; 
this great Pentecostal work is in motion. You can 
hardly get to a place now where God is not pouring 
out His Spirit on hungry hearts. God has promised to 
pour out His Spirit upon all flesh, and His promises 
never fail. Our Christ is risen. His salvation was 
not a thing done in a corner. Truly He was a man 
of glory who went to Calvary for us, in order that 
He might free us from all that would mar and hinder, 
that He might transform us by His grace, and bring 
us out from under the power of Satan into the glo¬ 
rious power of GoL One touch of our risen Christ 
will raise the dead. Hallelujah! 

Oli, this wonderful Jesus of ours! He comes and 
indwells us. He comes to abide. He it is who baptizes 
us with the Holy Ghost, and makes everything dif¬ 
ferent. We are to be a kind of firstfruits unto God 
and are to be like Christ who is the firstfruit, walking 
in His footsteps, living in His power. What a salta¬ 
tion this is, having this risen Christ in us. I feel 
that everything else must go to nothingness, help¬ 
lessness and ruin. Even the best thought of holiness 
must be on the decrease in order that Christ may in¬ 
crease, and we live in another state, and all things 
are under the power of the Spirit. 


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Dare you take your inheritance from God? Dare 
you believe God? Dare you stand on the record of 
His Word? What is the record? If thou shalt be¬ 
lieve thou shalt see the glory of God. You will be 
sifted as wheat. You will be tried as though some 
strange thing tried you. You will be put in places 
where you will have to put your whole trust in God. 
There is no such thing as anyone being tried beyond 
what God will allow. There is no temptation that 
will come, but God will be with you right in the temp¬ 
tation to deliver you, and when you have been tried, 
He will bring you forth as gold. Every trial is to 
bring you to a greater position in God. The trial that 
tries your faith will take you on to the place where 
you will know that the faith of God will be forth¬ 
coming in the next test. No man is able to win 
any victory save through the power of the risen 
Christ within him. You will never be able to say, “I 
did this or that.” You will desire to give God the 
glory for everything. 

If you are sure of your ground, if you are counting 
on the presence of the living Christ within, you can 
laugh when you see things getting worse. God 
would have you settled and grounded in Christ, and 
it is only as you are filled with the Holy Ghost that 
you become stedfast and unmoveable in Him. 

The Lord Jesus said, “I have a baptism to be bap¬ 
tized with; and how am I straitened till it be accom¬ 
plished.” He was assuredly straitened in the way, at 
Gethsemane, at the judgment hall, and, after that, at 
the cross, where He, through the eternal Spirit, of¬ 
fered Himself without spot to God. God will take 
us right on in like manner, and the Holy Spirit will 
lead every step of the way. God led Him right 
through to the empty tomb, to the ascension glory, 
to a place on the throne; and the Son of God will 
never be satisfied until He has us with Himself, shar¬ 
ing His glory and sharing His throne. 


CHAPTER VIII 
RIGHTEOUSNESS 

It is written of our blessed Lord, “Thou hast 
loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore 
God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil 
of gladness above thy fellows.” It is the purpose 
of God that we, as we are indwelt by the Spirit of His 
Son, should likewise love righteousness and hate in¬ 
iquity. I see that there is a place for us in Christ 
Jesus where we are no longer under condemnation 
but where the heavens are always open to us. I see 
that God has a realm of divine life opening up to us 
where there are boundless possibilities, where there 
is limitless power, where there are untold resources, 
where we have victory over all the power of the devil. 
I believe that, as we are filled with the desire to press 
on into this life of true holiness, desiring only the 
glory of God, there is nothing that can hinder our 
true advancement. 

Peter commences his second epistle with these 
words, “Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of 
Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious 
faith with us through the righteousness of God and 
our Saviour Jesus Christ.” It is through faith that we 
realize that we have a blessed and glorious union 
with our risen Lord. When He was on earth Jesus 
told us, “I am in the Father and the Father in me.” 
“The Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the 
works.” And He prayed to His Father, not only for 
His disciples, but for those who should believe on 
Him through their word, “That they all may be one 1 ; 
as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they 
also may be one in us: that the world may believe 
that Thou hast sent Me.” Oh what an inheritance is 
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ours when the very nature, the very righteousness, 
the very power of the Father and the Son are made 
real in us. This is God’s purpose, and as we by faith 
lay hold on the purpose we shall be ever conscious 
of the fact that greater is He that is in us than he 
that is in the world. The purpose of all scripture is 
to move us on to this wonderful and blessed eleva¬ 
tion of faith where our constant experience is the 
manifestation of God’s life and power through us. 

Peter goes on writing to these who have obtained 
like precious faith, saying, “Grace and peace be mul¬ 
tiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and 
of Jesus our Lord.” Wei can have the multiplication 
of this grace and peace only as we live in the realm 
of faith. Abraham attained to the place where he 
became a friend of God, on no other line than that 
of believing God. He believed God and God counted 
that to him for righteousness. Righteousness was 
imputed to him on no other ground than that he be¬ 
lieved God. Can this be true of anybody else? Yes, 
every person in the whole wide world who is saved 
by faith is blessed with faithful Abraham. The prom¬ 
ise which came to him because he believed God was 
that in Him all the families of the earth should be 
blessed. When we believe God there is no knowing 
where the blessing of our faith will end. 

Some are tied up because, when they are prayed 
for, the thing that they are expecting does not come 
off the same night. They say they believe, but you 
can see that they are really in turmoil of unbelief. 
Abraham believed God. You can hear him saying to 
Sarah, “Sarah, there is no life in you and there is 
nothing in me, but God has promised us a son and I 
believe God.” And that kind of faith is a joy to our 
Father in heaven. 

One day I was having a meeting in Bury, in Lan¬ 
cashire, England. A young woman was present who 
came from a place called Ramsbottom, to be healed of 
goiter. Before she came she said, “I am going to be 
healed of this goiter, mother.” After one meeting 


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she came forward and was prayed for. The next 
meeting she got up and testified that she had been 
wonderfully healed, and she said, “I shall be so 
happy to go and tell mother that I have been wonder¬ 
fully healed” She went to her home and testified 
how wonderfully she had been healed, and the next 
year when we were having the convention she came 
again. To the natural view it looked as though the 
goiter was just as big as ever; but that young woman 
was believing God and she was soon on her feet giv¬ 
ing her testimony, and saying, “I was here last year 
and the Lord wonderfully healed me. I wanf to tell 
you that this has been the best year of my life.” She 
seemed to be greatly blessed in that meeting and she 
went home to testify more strongly than ever that 
the Lord had healed her. She believed God. The third 
year she was at the meeting again, and some people 
who looked at her said, “How big that goiter has be¬ 
come.” But when the time came for testimony she 
was up on her feet and testified, “Two years ago the 
Lord gloriously healed me of goiter. Oh I had a most 
wonderful healing. It is grand to be healed by the 
power of God.” That day someone remonstrated with 
her and said, “People will think there is something 
the matter with you. Why don’t you look in the 
glass? You will see your goiter is bigger than ever.” 
That good woman went to the Lord about it and said, 
“Lord, you so wonderfully healed me two years ago. 
Won’t you show all the people that you healed me.” 
She went to sleep peacefully that night still believing 
God and when she came down the next day there was 
not a trace or a mark of that goiter. 

God’s word is from everlasting to everlasting. His 
word cannot fail. God’s word is true and when we 
rest in the fact of its truth what mighty results we 
can get. Faith never looks in the glass. Faith has a 
glass into which it can look. It is the glass of the 
perfect law of liberty. “Whoso looketh into the per¬ 
fect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being 
not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this 


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man shall be blessed in his deed.” To the man who 
looks into this perfect law of God all darkness is re¬ 
moved and he sees his completeness in Christ. There 
is no darkness in faith. There is only darkness in 
nature. Darkness only exists when the natural is put 
in the place of the divine. 

Not only is grace multiplied to us through knowl¬ 
edge of God and of Jesus Christ, but peace also. As 
we really know our God and Jesus Christ whom He 
has sent, we will have peace multiplied to us even in 
the multiplied fires of ten thousand Nebuchadnezzars. 
It will be multiplied to us even though we are put into 
the den of lions, and we will live with joy in the 
midst of the whole thing. What was the difference 
between Daniel and the king that night when Daniel 
was put into the den of lions? Daniel knew, but the 
king was experimenting. The king came around the 
next morning and cried, “Oh Daniel, servant of the 
living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continu¬ 
ally, able to deliver thee from the lions?” Daniel 
answered, “My God hath sent His angel, and hath 
shut the lions’ mouths.” The thing was done. It 
was done when Daniel prayed with his windows open 
toward heaven. All our victories are won before we 
go into the fight. Prayer links us on to our lovely 
God, our abounding God, our multiplying God. Oh 
I love Him! He is so wonderful! 

You will note, as you read these first two verses 
of the first chapter of the second epistle of Peter, 
that this grace and peace is multiplied through the 
knowledge of God, but that first our faith comes 
through the righteousness of God. Note that right¬ 
eousness comes first and knowledge afterwards. It 
cannot be otherwise. If you expect any revelation 
of God apart from holiness you will have only a mix¬ 
ture. Holiness opens the door to all the treasures 
of God. He must first bring us to the place where 
we, like our Lord, love righteousness and hate in¬ 
iquity, before He opens up to us these good treasures. 


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When we regard iniquity in our hearts the Lord will 
not hear us, and it is only as we are made righteous 
and pure and holy through the precious blood of 
God’s Son that we can enter into this life of holiness 
and righteousness in the Son. It is the righteousness 
of our Lord Himself made real in us as our faith is 
stayed in Him. 

After I was baptized with the Holy Ghost the Lord 
gave me a blessed revelation. I saw Adam and Eve 
turned out of the garden for their disobedience and 
unable to partake of the tree of life, for the cherubim 
with flaming sword kept them away from this tree. 
When I was baptized I saw that I had begun to eat 
of this tree of life and I saw that the flaming sword 
was all round about. It was there to keep the devil 
away. Oh, what privileges are ours when we are 
born of God. How marvelously He keeps us so that 
the wicked one touches us not. I see a place in God 
where Satan dare not come. Hidden in God. And 
He invites us all to come and share this wonderful 
hidden place where our lives are hid with Christ in 
God, where we dwell in the secret place of the Most 
High and abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 
God has this place for you in this blessed realm of 
grace. 

Peter goes on to say, “According as His divine 
power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto 
life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that 
hath called us to glory and virtue.” God is calling 
us to this realm of glory and virtue where, as we 
feed on His exceeding great and precious promises, 
we are made partakers of the divine nature. Faith 
is the substance of things hoped for right here in this 
life. It is right here that God would have us par¬ 
take of His divine nature. It is nothing less than the 
life of the Lord Himself imparted and flowing into 
our whole beings, so that our very body is quickened, 
so that every tissue and every drop of blood and our 
bones and joints and marrow receive this divine life. 
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right into our natural bodies, this law of the spirit of 
life in Christ Jesus that makes us free from the law 
of sin and death. God wants to establish our faith so 
that we will lay hold on this divine life, this divine 
nature of the Son of God, so that our spirit and soul 
and body will be sanctified wholly and preserved unto 
the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

When that woman was healed of the issue of blood, 
Jesus perceived that power had gone out of Him. 
The woman’s faith laid hold and this power was im¬ 
parted and immediately the woman’s being was sur¬ 
charged with life and her weakness departed. The 
impartation of this power produces everything you 
need; but it comes only as our faith moves out for 
its impartation. Faith is the victory. If thou canst 
believe, it is thine. 

I suffered for many years from piles, till my whole 
body was thoroughly weak; the blood used to gush 
from me. One day I got desperate and I took a bot¬ 
tle of oil and anointed myself. I said to the Lord, 
“Do what you want to, quickly.” I was healed at 
that very moment. God wants us to have an activity 
of faith that dares to believe God. There is what 
seems like faith, an appearance of faith, but real faith 
believes God right to the end. 

What was the difference between Zacharias and 
Mary? The angel came to Zacharias and told him, 
“Thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son.” Zacha¬ 
rias was there in the holy place, but he began to 
question this message, saying, “I am an old man, my 
wife is well stricken in years.” Gabriel rebuked him 
for his unbelief and told him, “Thou shalt be dumb, 
and not able to speak, until the day that these things 
shall be performed, because thou believest not my 
words.” But note the contrast when the angel came 
to Mary. She said, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord ; 
be it unto me according to thy word.” And Eliza¬ 
beth greeted Mary with the words, “Blessed is she 
that believed: for there shall be a performance of 
those things which were told her from the Lord.” 


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God would have us to lay hold on His word in like 
manner. He would have us to come with boldness 
of faith declaring, “You have promised it, Lord. Now 
do it.” God rejoices when we manifest a faith that 
holds Him to His word. Can we get there? 

The Lord has called us to this glory and virtue; 
and, as our faith lays hold on Him, we shall see this 
in manifestation. I remember one day I was holding 
an open-air meeting. My uncle came to that meet¬ 
ing and said, “Aunt Mary would like to see Smith 
before she dies.” I went to see her and she was 
assuredly dying. I said, “Lord, can’t you do some¬ 
thing?” All I did was this, to stretch out my hands 
and lay them on her. It seemed as though there was 
an immediate impartation of the glory and virtue of 
the Lord. Aunt Mary cried, “It is going all over my 
body.” And that day she was made perfectly whole. 

One day I was preaching axd a man brought a 
boy who was done up in bandages. The boy was in 
irons and it was impossible for him to walk and it 
was difficult for them to get him to the platform. 
They passed him over about six seats. The power 
of the Lord was present to heal and it entered right 
into the child as I placed my hands on him. The child 
cried, “Daddy, it is going all over me.” They stripped 
the boy and found nothing imperfect in him. 

The Lord would have us to be walking epistles of 
His word. Jesus is the Word and is the power in us, 
and it is His desire to work in and through us His 
own good pleasure. We must believe that He is in 
us. There are boundless possibilities for us if we dare 
to act in God and dare to believe that the wonderful 
virtue of our living Christ shall be made manifest 
through us as we lay our hands on the sick in His 
name. 

The exceeding great and precious promises of the 
Word are given to us that we might be partakers of 
the divine nature. I feel the Holy Ghost is grieved 
with us because, when we know these things, we do 
not do greater exploits for God. Does not the Holy- 


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Ghost show us wide-open doors o-f opportunity? 
Shall we not let God take us on to greater things? 
Shall we not believe God to take us on to greater 
manifestations of His power? His call for us is to 
forget the things that are behind, and reach forth 
unto the things which are before and to press to¬ 
ward the mark for the prize of the high calling of 
God in Christ Jesus. 


CHAPTER IX 

“THE WORDS OF THIS LIFE” 

Bible Reading—Acts 5:1-20 

Notice this expression that the Lord gives of the 
Gospel message—“the words of this life.” It is the 
most wonderful life possible—the life of faith in the 
Son of God. This is the life where God is all the 
time. He is round about and He is within. It is 
the life of many revelations and of many manifesta¬ 
tions of God’s Holy Spirit, a life in which the Lord 
is continually seen, known, felt and heard. It is a 
life without death, for “we have passed from death 
unto life.” The very life of God has come within us. 
Where that life is within in its fulness, disease can¬ 
not exist. It would take me a month to tell out what 
there is in this wonderful life. Everyone can go in 
and possess and be possessed by this life. 

It is possible for you to be within the vicinity 
of this life and yet miss it. It is possible for you to 
be in a place where God is pouring out His Spirit and 
yet miss the blessing that God is so willing to bestow. 
It all comes through shortness of revelation and 
through a misunderstanding of the infinite grace of 
God, and of the “God of all grace,” who is willing to 
give to all who will reach out the hand of faith. This 
life that He freely bestows is a gift. Some think they 
have to earn it and they miss the whole thing. Oh, 
for a simple faith to receive all that God so lavishly 
offers. You can never be ordinary from the day you 
receive this life from above. You become extraor¬ 
dinary, filled with the extraordinary power of our ex¬ 
traordinary God. 


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Ananias and Sapphira were in this thing and yet 
they missed it. They thought that possibly the thing 
might fail. So they wanted to have a reserve for 
themselves in case it did turn out to be a failure. 
They were in the wonderful revival that God gave to 
the early church and yet they missed it. There are 
many people like them today who make vows to God 
in times of a great crisis in their lives. But they fail 
to keep their vows and in the end they become spir¬ 
itually bankrupt. Blessed is the man who will swear 
to his own hurt and change not; who keeps the vow 
he has made to God; who is willing to lay his all at 
God’s feet. The man who does this never becomes a 
lean soul. God has promised to “make fat his bones.” 
There is no dry place for such a man; he is always 
fat and flourishing, and he becomes stronger and 
stronger. It pays to trust God with all and to make 
no reservation. 

I wish I could make you see how great a God we 
have. Ananias and Sapphira were really doubting 
God and were questioning whether this work that He 
had begun would go through. They wanted to get 
some glory for selling their property, but because of 
their lack of faith they kept back part of the price in 
reserve in case the work of God should fail. 

Many are doubting whether this Pentecostal re¬ 
vival will go through. Do you think this Pentecostal 
work will stop ? Never. For fifteen years I have been 
in constant revival and I am sure that it will never 
stop. When George Stephenson made his first engine 
he took his sister Mary to see it. She looked at it 
and said to her brother, “George, it’ll never go.” He 
said to her, “Get in, Mary.” She said again, “It’ll 
never go.” He said to her, “We’ll see, you get in.” 
Mary at last got in—the whistle blew, there was a 
puff and a rattle, and the engine started off. Then 
Mary cried out, “George, it’ll never stop! It’ll never 
stop!!” 

People are looking on at this Pentecostal revival 
and they are very critical and they are saying, “It’ll 


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neve,r go;” but when they are induced to come into 
the work, they one and all say, “It’ll never stop.” 
This revival of God is sweeping on and on and there 
is no stopping the current of life, of love, of inspira¬ 
tion, and of power. 

(Interpretation: It is the living Word who has 
brought this. It is the Lamb in the midst, the same 
yesterday, today and forever.) 

God has brought unlimited resources for everyone. 
Do not doubt. Hear with the ear of faith. God is in 
the midst. See that it is God who hath set for that 
which you see and hear today. 

I want you to see that in the early church, con¬ 
trolled by the power of the Holy Ghost, it was not 
possible for a lie to exist. The moment it came into 
the : church, there was instant death. And as the 
power of the Holy Ghost increases in these days of 
the Latter Rain, it will impossible for any man to 
remain in our midst with a lying spirit. God will pur¬ 
ify the church; the Word of God will be in such power 
in healing and other spiritual manifestations, that 
great fear will be upon all those who see the same. 

It seems to the natural mind a small thing for An¬ 
anias and Sapphira to want to have a little to fall 
back on; but I want to tell you that you can please 
God, and you can get things from God only on the 
line of a living faith. God never fails. God never can 
fail. 

When I was in Bergen, Norway, there came to the 
meeting a young woman who was employed at the 
hospital as a nurse. A big cancer had developed on 
her nose, and the nose was enlarged and had become 
black and greatly inflamed. She came out for prayer 
and I said to her, “What is your condition?” She said, 
“I dare not touch my nose, it gives me so much pain.” 
I said to all the people, “I want you to look at this 
nurse and notice her terrible condition. I believe that 
our God is. merciful and that He is faithful, and that 
He will bring to naught this condition that the devil 


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has brought about. I am going to curse this disease 
in the all powerful name of Jesus. The pain will go. 
I believe God will give us an exhibition of His grace 
and I will ask this young woman to come to the meet¬ 
ing tomorrow night and declare what God has done 
for her.” 

Oh, the awfulness of sin! Oh, the awfulness of the 
power of sin! Oh, the awfulness of the consequences 
of the fall! When I see a cancer I always know it is 
an evil spirit. I can never believe it is otherwise. The 
same with tumors. Can this be the work of God? 
God help me to show you that this is the work of the 
devil, and to show you the way out. 

I do not condemn people that sin. I don’t scold peo¬ 
ple. I know what is back of the sin. I know that 
Satan is always going about as a roaring lion, seeking 
whom he may devour. I always remember the pa¬ 
tience and love of the Lord Jesus Christ. When they 
brought to Him a woman that they had taken in 
adultery, telling Him that they had caught her in 
the very act, He simply stooped down and wrote on 
the ground. Then He quietly said, “He that is with¬ 
out sin among you, let him cast the first stone.” I 
have never seen a man without sin. “All have sinned 
and come short of the glory of God.” But I read in 
this blessed Gospel message that God hath laid upon 
Jesus the iniquity of us all; so, when I see an evil con¬ 
dition, I feel that I must stand in my office and re¬ 
buke the condition. 

I laid my hands on the nose of that suffering nurse 
and cursed the evil power that was causing her so 
much distress. The next night the place was packed 
and the people were jammed together so that it 
seemed that there was not room for one more to come 
into that house. How God’s rain fell upon us. How 
good God is, so full of grace and so full of love. I 
saw the nurse in the audience and cried out, “Here s 
the woman with the nose.” I asked her to come for¬ 
ward and she came and showed everyone what God 
had done. He had perfectly healed her. Oh, I tell 


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you He is just the same Jesus. He is just the same 
today. All things are possible if you dare to trust 
God/ 

When the power of God came so mightily upon the 
early church, even in the death of Ananias and Sap- 
phira, great fear came upon all the people. And when 
we are in the presence of God, when God is working 
mightily in our midst, there comes a great fear, a 
reverence, a holiness of life, a purity that fears to 
displease God. We read that no man durst join them, 
but God added to the church such as should be saved. 
I would rather have God add to our Pentecostal 
-church than have all the town join it. God added daily 
to His own church. 

The next thing that happened was that people be¬ 
came so assured that God was working that they 
knew that anything would be possible, and they 
brought their sick into the streets and laid them on 
beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter 
passing by might overshadow them. Multitudes of 
sick people and those oppressed with evil spirits were 
brought to the apostles and God healed them every 
one. I do not believe that it was the shadow of Peter 
that healed, but the power of God was mightily pres¬ 
ent and the faith of the people was so aroused that 
they joined with one heart to believe God. God will 
always meet people on the line of faith. 

God’s tide is rising all over the earth. I had been 
preaching at Stavanger in Norway, and was very 
tired and wanted a few hours rest. I went to my next 
appointment, arriving at about 9:30 in the morning. 
My first meeting was to be at night. I said to my 
interpreter, “After we have had something to eat, let 
us go down to the fjords.” We spent three or four 
hours down by the sea and at about 4:30 returned. 
We found the end of the street, which had a narrow 
entrance, just filled with autos, wagons, etc., contain¬ 
ing invalids and sick people of every kind. I went up 
to the house and was told that the house was full of 
sick people. It reminded me of the scene described in 


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the fifth chapter of Acts. I began praying for the 
people in the street and God began to heal the people. 
How wonderfully He healed those people who were 
in the house. We sat down for a lunch and the tele¬ 
phone bell rang and someone at the other end was 
saying, “What shall we do ? The town hall is already 
full; the police cannot control things.” 

In that little Norwegian town the people were 
jammed together, and oh, how the power of God fell 
upon us. A cry went up from every one, “Isn’t this 
the revival?” 

Revival is coming. The breath of the Almighty is 
coming. The breath of God shows up every defect, 
and as it comes flowing in like a river, everybody 
will need a fresh anointing, a fresh cleansing of the 
blood. You can depend upon it that that breath is 
upon us. 

At one time I was at a meeting in Ireland. There 
were many sick carried to that meeting and helpless 
ones were helped there. There were many people in 
that place who were seeking for the Baptism of the 
Holy Ghost. Some of them had been seeking for 
years. There were sinners there who were under 
mighty conviction. There came a moment when the 
breath of God swept through the meeting. In about 
ten minutes every sinner in the place was saved. 
Everyone who had been seeking the Holy Spirit was 
baptized, and every sick one was healed. God is a 
reality and His power can never fail. As our faith 
reaches out, God will meet us and the same rain will 
fall. It is the same blood that cleanseth, the same 
power, the same Holy Ghost, and the same Jesus made 
real through the power of the Holy Ghost! What 
would happen if we would believe God? 

Right now the precious blood of the Lord Jesus 
Christ is efficacious to cleanse your heart and bring 
this life, this wonderful life of God, within you. The 
blood will make you every whit whole if you dare 
believe. The Bible is full of entreaty for you to come 
and partake and receive the grace, the power, the 


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strength, the righteousness, and the full redemption 
of Jesus Christ. He never fails to hear when we be¬ 
lieve. 

At one place where I was, a lame man was brought 
to me who had been in bed for two years, with no 
hope of recovery. He was brought thirty miles to the 
meeting, and he came up on crutches to be prayed 
for. His boy was also afflicted in the knees and they 
had four crutches between the two of them. The 
man’s face was filled with torture. There is healing 
virtue in the Lord and He never fails to heal when we 
believe. In the name of Jesus—that name so full of 
virtue—I put my hand down that leg that was so dis¬ 
eased. The man threw down his crutches and all were 
astonished as they saw him walking up and down 
without aid. The little boy called out to his father, 
“Papa, me; papa, me, me, me!” The little boy who 
was withered in both knees wanted a like touch. And 
the same Jesus was there to bring a real deliverance 
for the little captive. He was completely healed. 

These were legs that were touched. If God will 
stretch out His mighty power to loose afflicted legs, 
what mercy will He extend to that soul of yours that 
must exist forever? Hear the Lord say, “The Spirit 
of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me 
to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to 
heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the 
captive, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set 
at liberty them that are bruised.” He invites you, 
“Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, 
and I will give you rest.” God is willing in His great 
mercy to touch thy limbs with His mighty vital power, 
and if He is willing to do this, how much more anxious 
is He to deliver thee from the power of Satan and to 
make thee a child of the King. How much more nec¬ 
essary it is for you to be healed of your soul sickness 
than of your bodily ailments. And God is willing to 
give the double cure. 

I was passing through the city of London one time, 
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Missionary Union, got to know that I was there. He 
arranged for me to meet him at a certain place at 
3.30 p. m. I was to meet a certain boy whose father 
and mother lived in the city of Salisbury. They had 
sent this young man to London to take care of their 
business. He had been a leader in Sunday school 
work but he had been betrayed and had fallen. Sin is 
awful and the wages of sin is death. But there is an¬ 
other side—the gift of God is eternal life. 

This young man was in great distress; he had con¬ 
tracted a horrible disease and feared to tell anyone. 
There was nothing but death ahead for him. When 
the father and mother got to know of his condition 
they suffered inexpressible grief. 

When we got to the house, Brother Mundell sug¬ 
gested that we get down to prayer. I said, “God does 
not say so, we are not going to pray yet. I want to 
quote a scripture, ‘Fools, because of their transgres¬ 
sion, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted: 
their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they 
draw near unto the gates of death/ ” The young man 
cried out, “I am that fool.” He broke down and told 
us the story of his fall. Oh, if men would only repent, 
and confess their sins, how God would stretch out 
His hand to heal and to save. The moment that young 
man repented, a great abscess burst, and God sent vir¬ 
tue into that young man’s life, giving him a mighty 
deliverance. 

God is gracious and not willing that any should per¬ 
ish. How many are willing to make a clean breast of 
their sins. I tell you that the moment you do this, 
God will open heaven. It is an easy thing for Him to 
save your soul and heal your disease if yoq, will but 
come and shelter today in the secret place of the 
Most High. He will satisfy you with long life and 
show you His salvation. In His presence there is ful¬ 
ness of joy, at His right hand there are pleasures for 
evermore. There is full redemption for all through 
the precious blood of the Son of God. 


CHAPTER X 
LIFE IN THE SPIRIT 


Bible Reading, 2 Corinthians 3 

We are told that we are to leave the first principles 
of the doctrine of Christ and go on to perfection, not 
laying again the foundation of repentance from dead 
works and the doctrine of baptisms and other first 
principles (Hebrews 6). What would you think of a 
builder who was everlastingly pulling down his house 
and putting in fresh foundations? Never look back if 
you want the power of God in your life. You will find 
out that in the measure you have allowed yourself to 
look back you have missed that which God has for 
you. 

The Holy Ghost shows us that we must never look 
back to the law of sin and death from which we have 
been delivered. God has brought us into a new order 
of things, a life of love and liberty in Christ Jesus that 
is beyond all human comprehension. Many are 
brought into this new life through the power of the 
Spirit of God, and then, like the Galatians, who ran 
well at the beginning, they try to perfect themselves 
on the lines of legalism. They go back from the life in 
the Spirit to a life on natural lines. God is not pleased 
with this, for He has no place for the man who has 
lost the vision. The only thing to do is to repent. 
Don’t try to cover up anything. If you have been 
tripped up on any line, confess it out, and then look to 
God to bring you to a place of stability of faith where 
your whole walk will be in the Spirit. 

We all ought to have a clear conviction that salva¬ 
tion is of the Lord. It is more than a human order 
of things. If the enemy can move you from a place of 

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faith, he can get you outside the plan of God. The 
moment a man falls into sin, divine life ceases to flow, 
and his life becomes one of helplessness. But this is 
not God’s thought for any of His children. Read the 
third chapter of John’s first epistle and take your 
place as a son of God. Take the place of knowing 
that you are a son of God, and remember that, as your 
hope is set in Christ, it should have a purifying effect 
on your life. The Holy Spirit says, “Whosoever is 
born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed re- 
maineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born 
of God.” There is life and power in the seed of the 
Word that is implanted within. God is in that “can¬ 
not,” and there is more power in that word of His 
than in any human objections. God’s thought for ev¬ 
eryone of us is that we shall reign in life by Jesus 
Christ. You must come to see how wonderful you 
are in God and how helpless you are in yourself. 

God declared Himself more mighty than every op¬ 
posing power when He cast out the powers of dark¬ 
ness from heaven. I want you to know that the same 
power that cast Satan out of heaven dwells in every 
man that is born of God. If you would but realize 
this, you would reign in life. When you see people 
laid out under an evil power, when you see the pow¬ 
ers of evil manifesting themselves, always put the 
question, “Did Jesus come in the flesh?” I have never 
seen an evil power answer in the affirmative. When 
you know you have an evil spirit to deal with you have 
power to cast it out. Believe it and act on it, for 
“greater is He that is in you than he that is in the 
world” (1 John 4:4). God means you to be in a place 
of overcoming, and has put a force within you where¬ 
by you may defeat the devil. 

Temptations will come to all. If you are not worth 
tempting you are not worth powder and shot. Job 
said: “When He hath tried me, I shall come forth as 
gold.” In every temptation that comes, the Lord lets 
you be tempted up to the very hilt, but will never al¬ 
low you to be defeated if you walk in obedience; for 


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right in the midst of the temptation He will always 
“make a way of escape. ,, 

Tongues and Interpretation: “God comes forth and 
with His power sweeps away the refuge of lies and all 
the powers of darkness, and causes you always to tri¬ 
umph in Christ Jesus. The Lord loveth His saints and 
covers them with His almighty wings.” 

May God help us to see it. We cannot be to the 
praise of His glory until we are ready for trials, and 
are able to triumph in them. We can not get away 
from the fact that sin came in by nature, but God 
comes into our nature and puts it into the place of 
death, that the Spirit of God may come into the tem¬ 
ple in all His power and liberty, that right here in 
this present evil world Satan may be dethroned by 
the believer. 

Satan is always endeavoring to bring the saints of 
God into disrepute, bringing against them railing ac¬ 
cusations, but the Holy Ghost never comes with con¬ 
demnation. He always reveals the blood of Christ. 
He always brings us help. The Lord Jesus referred 
to Him as the Comforter who would come. He is 
always on hand to help in the seasons of trial and test. 
The Holy Ghost is the lifting power of the church of 
Christ. And Paul tells us that we “are manifestly 
declared to be the epistle of Christ, . . . written not 
with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not 
in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.” 
The Holy Ghost begins in the heart, right in the 
depths of human affections. He brings into the heart 
the riches of the revelation of Christ, implanting pur¬ 
ity and holiness there, so that, out of its depths, 
praises may well up continually. 

The Holy Ghost will make us epistles of Christ, ever 
telling out that Jesus our Lord is our Redeemer and 
that He is ever before God as a newly slain lamb. 
God has never put away that revelation. And be¬ 
cause of the perfect atonement of that slain Lamb, 
there is salvation, healing and deliverance for all. 
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once, but as we walk in the light the blood of Jesus 
Christ is ever cleansing. 

The very life of Christ has been put within us, and 
is moving within us—a perfect life. May the Lord 
help us to see the power of this life. The years of a 
man’s life are threescore and ten, and so in the nat¬ 
ural order of things, my life will be finished in seven 
years, but I have begun a new life that will never 
end. “From everlasting to everlasting Thou art God.” 
This is the life I have come into, and there is no end 
to this life. In me is working a power that is stronger 
than every power; Christ, the power of God, formed 
within me. I can see why we need to be clothed upon 
from above, for the life that is in me is a thousand 
times bigger than I am outside. There must be a tre¬ 
mendous expansion. I see, and cannot help seeing, 
that this thing cannot be understood on natural lines; 
no natural reason can comprehend the divine plan. 

“We are not sufficient to think anything as of our¬ 
selves, but our sufficiency is of God.” If you go back, 
you miss the plan. We leave the old order of things. 
We can never have confidence in the flesh; we cannot 
touch that. We are in a new order, a spiritual order. 
It is a new life of absolute faith in the sufficiency of 
our God in everything that pertains to life and god¬ 
liness. 

You could never come into this place and be a 
Seventh-day Adventist. The law has no place in you. 
You are set free from everything. At the same time, 
like Paul, you are “bound in the Spirit” so that you 
would not do anything to grieve the Lord. 

Paul further tells us that He has made us “able 
ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, 
but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit 
giveth life.” It is one thing to read this, and another 
to have the revelation of it and to see the spiritual 
force of it. Any man can live in the letter and be¬ 
come dry and wordy, limited in knowledge of spiritual 
verities, and spend his time everlastingly in splitting 
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Spirit, all the dryness goes, all the spirit of criticism 
leaves. There can be no divisions in a life in the 
Spirit. The Spirit of God brings such pliability and 
such love! There is no love like the love in the Spirit. 
It is a pure, a holy, a divine love that is shed in our 
hearts by the Spirit. It loves to serve and to honor 
the Lord. 

I can never estimate what the Baptism of the Holy 
Ghost has been to me these past fifteen years. It 
seems that every year has had three years packed into 
it, so that I have had forty-five years of happy service 
since 1907. And it is getting better all the time. It 
it a luxury to be filled with the Spirit, and at the 
same time it is a divine command for us, not to be 
filled with wine wherein is excess, but to be filled with 
the Spirit. No Pentecostal person ought to get out of 
bed without being lost in the Spirit and speaking in 
tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. No one should 
come into the door of an assembly without speaking 
in tongues or having a psalm, or a note of praise. We 
emphasize that at the incoming of the Spirit He 
should so fill us that the last member in the body is 
yielded to Him, and that no one is baptized in the 
Spirit without speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives 
utterance; and I maintain that, with a constant filling, 
you will speak in tongues morning, noon and night. 
As you live in the Spirit, when you walk down the 
steps of the house where you live, the devil will have 
to go before you. You will be more than a conqueror 
over the devil. 

I see everything a failure except that which is done 
in the Spirit. But as you live in the Spirit, you move, 
act, eat, drink, and do everything to the glory of God. 
Our message is always this, “Be filled with the Spirit.” 
This is God’s place for you, and it is as far above the 
natural life as the heavens are above the earth. Yield 
yourselves for God to fill. 

Moses had a tremendous trial with the people. 
They were always in trouble. But as he went up into 
the mount, and God unfolded to him the ten command- 


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ments, the glory fell. He rejoiced to bring those two 
tables of stone down from the mount, and his very 
countenance shone with the glory. He was bringing 
to Israel that which, if obeyed, would bring life. 

I think of my Lord coming from heaven. I think 
all heaven was moved by the sight. The law of the 
letter was brought by Moses and it was made glo¬ 
rious, but all its glory was dimmed before the ex¬ 
celling glory which Jesus brought to us in the Spirit 
of life. The glory of Sinai paled before the glory of 
Pentecost. Those tables of stone with their, “Thou 
shalt not, thou shalt not,” are done away; for they nev¬ 
er brought life to anyone, and the Lord has brought in 
a new covenant, putting His law in our minds and 
writing it in our hearts, this new law of the Spirit of 
life. As the Holy Ghost comes in, He fills us with 
such love and liberty that we shout for joy these 
words of this 11th verse, “Done away! Done away!” 
Henceforth there is a new cry in our hearts, “I de¬ 
light to do Thy will, O God.” He taketh away the 
first, the ministration of death, written and engraven 
in stones, that He might establish the second, this 
ministration of righteousness, this life in the Spirit. 

You ask, “Does a man who is filled with the Spirit 
cease to keep the commandments?” I simply repeat 
what the Spirit of God has told us here, that this min¬ 
istration of death, written and engraven in stones 
(and you know that the ten commandments were 
written on stones), is “DONE AWAY.” The man 
who becomes a living epistle of Christ, written with 
the Spirit of the living God, has ceased to be an adul¬ 
terer, or a murderer or a covetous man; the will of 
God is his delight. I love to do the will of God; there 
is no irksomeness to it; it is no trial to pray; no trou¬ 
ble to read the Word of God; it is not a hard thing 
to go to the place of worship. With the psalmist you 
say, “I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go 
into the house of the Lord.” 

How does this new life work out ? The thing works 
out because God works in you to will and to do of His 


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own good pleasure (Phil. 2:13). There is a great dif¬ 
ference between a pump and a spring. The law is a 
pump, the Baptism is a spring. The old pump gets 
out of order, the parts perish, and the well runs dry. 
The letter killeth. But the spring is ever bubbling 
up and there is a ceaseless flow direct from the throne 
of God. There is life. 

It is written of Christ, “Thou lovest righteousness, 
and hatest wickedness.” And in this new life in the 
Spirit, in this new covenant life, you love the things 
that are right and pure and holy, and shudder at all 
things that are wrong. Jesus was able to say, “The 
prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in 
Me,” and the moment we are filled with the Spirit 
of God we are brought into like wonderful condtion, 
and, as we continue to be filled with the Spirit, the 
enemy cannot have an inch of territory in us. 

Do you not believe that you can be so filled with the 
Spirit that a man who is not living right can be judged 
and convicted by your presence? As we go on in the 
life of the Spirit, it will be said of us, “in whose eyes 
a vile person is contemned” (Psalm 15 :4). Jesus lived 
there and moved in this realm, and His life was a 
constant reproof to the wickedness around. But He 
was the Son of God, you say. God, through Him, has 
brought us into the place of sonship, and I believe 
that if He has a chance with the material, the Holy 
Ghost can make something of us, and bring us to the 
same place. 

I don’t want to boast. If I glory in anything, it is 
only in the Lord who has been so gracious to me. But 
I remember one time stepping out of a railroad car¬ 
riage to wash my hands. I had a season of prayer, 
and the Lord just filled me to overflowing with His 
love. I was going to a convention in Ireland, and I 
could not get there fast enough. As I returned, I 
believe that the Spirit of the Lord was so heavily upon 
me that my face must have shone. (No man can tell 
himself when the Spirit transforms his very counte¬ 
nance.) There were two clerical men sitting together,. 


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and as I got into the carriage again, one of them cried 
out, “You convince me of sin.” Within three minutes 
every one in the carriage was crying to God for sal¬ 
vation. This thing has happened many times in my 
life. It is this ministration of the Spirit that Paul 
speaks of, this filling of the Spirit, that will make 
your life effective, so that even the people in the 
stores where you trade will want to leave your pres¬ 
ence because they are brought under conviction. 

We must move from everything of the letter. All 
that we do must be done under the anointing of the 
Spirit. The trouble has been that we as Pentecostal 
people have been living in the letter. Believe what 
the Holy Spirit says through Paul—that all this min¬ 
istration of condemnation that has hindered your lib¬ 
erty in Christ is done away. The law is DONE 
AWAY! As far as you are concerned, all that old 
order of things is forever done away, and the Spirit 
of God has brought in a new life of purity and love. 
The Holy Ghost takes it for granted that you are 
finshed with all the things of the old life when you 
become a new creation in Christ. In the life in the 
Spirit, the old allurements have lost their power. The 
devil will meet you at every turn, but the Spirit of 
God will always lift up a standard against him. 

O, if God had His way, we would be like torches, 
purifying the very atmosphere wherever we go, mov¬ 
ing back the forces of wickedness. 

Tongues and Interpretation: “The Lord is that Spir¬ 
it. He moves in your heart. He shows you that the 
power within you is mightier than all the powers 
of darkness.” 

Done away! What do I mean? Will you be dis¬ 
loyal ? You will be more than loyal. Will you grum¬ 
ble when you are treated badly ? No, you will turn 
the other cheek. This is what you will always do 
when God lives in you. Leave yourselves in God's 
hands. Enter into rest. “He that is entered into His 
rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God 
did from His” (Hebrews 4). O this is a lovely rest! 


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The whole life is a Sabbath. This is the only life that 
can glorify God. It is a life of joy, and every day is a 
day of heaven on earth. 

There is a continued transformation in this life. 
Beholding the Lord and His glory, we are changed 
into the same image from glory to glory, even by the 
Spirit of the Lord. There is a continued unveiling, a 
constant revelation, a repeated clothing upon from 
above. I want you to promise God never to look back, 
never to go back to that which the Spirit has said is 
“done away.” I made this promise to the Lord that 
1 would never allow myself to doubt His Word. 

There is one thing about a baby, it takes all that 
comes to it. A prudent man lets his reason cheat him 
out of God’s best. But a baby takes all that its mother 
brings, and tries to swallow the bottle and all. The 
baby can’t walk, but the mother carries it; the baby 
cannot dress itself, but the mother dresses it. The 
baby can’t even talk. So in the life of the Spirit, God 
undertakes to do what we cannot do. We are carried 
along by Him, He clothes us, and He gives us utter¬ 
ance. Would that we all had the simplicity of the 
babes. 


CHAPTER XI 

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE FULL OF THE SPIRIT 
Bible Reading—Acts 6. 

In the days when the number of disciples began to 
be multiplied there developed a situation which caused 
the twelve to make a definite decision not to occupy 
themselves with serving tables, but to give themselves 
continually to prayer and to the ministry of the Word. 
How important it is for all God’s ministers to be con¬ 
tinually in prayer, and constantly feeding on the Scrip¬ 
tures of Truth. I often offer a reward to anyone who 
can catch me anywhere without my Bible or my Tes¬ 
tament. 

None of you can be strong in God unless you are 
diligently and constantly hearkening to what God has 
to say to you through His Word. You cannot know 
the power and the nature of God unless you partake 
of His inbreathed Word. Read it at morn and at 
night, and at every opportunity you get. After every 
meal, instead of indulging in unprofitable conversation 
round the table, read a chapter from the Word and 
then have a season of prayer. I endeavor to make a 
point of doing this no matter where or with whom 
I am staying. 

The Psalmist said that he had hid God’s Word in his 
heart, that he might not sin against Him; and you 
will find that the more of God’s Word you hide in 
your heart, the easier it is to live a holy life. He also 
testified that God’s Word had quickened him; and, as 
you receive God’s Word into your being, your whole 
physical being will be quickened and you will be 
made strong. As you receive with meekness the 
Word, you will find faith upspringing within. And 
you will have life through the Word. 


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The twelve told the rest to look out seven men to 
look after the business end of things. They were to 
be men of honest report and filled with the Holy 
Ghost. These were just ordinary men who were 
chosen, but they were filled with the Holy Spirit, and 
this infilling always lifts a man to a plane above the 
ordinary. It does not take a cultured or a learned 
man to fill a position in God’s church; what God re¬ 
quires is a yielded, consecrated, holy life, and He can 
make of such a flame of fire. Baptized with the Holy 
Ghost and fire! 

The multitude chose out seven men to serve tables. 
They were doubtless faithful in their appointed tasks, 
but we see that God soon had a better choice for two 
of them. Philip was so full of the Holy Ghost that 
he could have a revival wherever God put him down. 
Man chose him to serve tables, but God chose him to 
win souls. O, if I could only stir you up to see that, 
as you are faithful in performing the humblest office, 
God can fill you with His Spirit and make you a 
chosen vessel for Himself, and promote you to a place 
of mighty ministry in the salvation of souls and in 
the healing of the sick. There is nothing impossible 
to a man filled with the Holy Ghost. It is beyond all 
human comprehension. When you are filled with the 
power of the Holy Ghost, God will wonderfully work 
wherever you go. 

When you are filled with the Spirit you will know 
the voice of God. I want to give you one illustration 
of this. When I was going out to Australia recently, 
our boat stopped at Aden and at Bombay. In the first 
place the people came round the ship selling their 
wares, beautiful carpets and all sorts of oriental 
things. There was one man selling some ostrich 
feathers. As I was looking over the side of the ship 
watching the trading, a gentleman said to me, “Would 
you go shares with me in buying that bunch of 
feathers?” What did I want with feathers? I had 
no use for such things and no room for them either. 
But the gentleman put the question to me again, “Will 


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you go shares with me in buying that bunch ?” The 
Spirit of God said to me, “Do it.” 

The feathers were sold to us for three pounds, and 
the gentleman said, “I have no money on me, but if 
you will pay the man for them, I will send the cash 
down to you by the purser.” I paid for the feathers 
and gave the gentleman his share. He was traveling 
firsthand I was traveling second class. I said to him, 
“No, please don’t give that money to the purser, I 
want you to bring it to me personally to my cabin.” 
I said to the Lord, “What about these feathers ?” He 
showed me that He had a purpose in my purchasing 
them. 

At about 10 o’clock the gentleman came to my cabin 
and sa:d, “I’ve brought the money.” I said to him, 
“It is not your money that I want, it is your soul 
that I am seeking for God.” Right there lie opened 
up the whole plan of his life and began to seek God; 
and that morning he wept his way through to God’s 
salvation. 

You have no conception what God can do through 
you when you are filled with His Spirit. Every day 
and every hour you can have the divine leading of 
God. To be filled with the Holy Ghost means much 
in every way. I have seen some who have been suf¬ 
fering for years, and when they have been filled with 
the Holy Ghost everything of their sickness has 
passed away. The Spirit of God has made real to 
them the life of Jesus and they have been completely 
liberated of every sickness and infirmity. 

Look at Stephen. He was just an ordinary man 
•chosen to serve tables. But the Holy Ghost, was in 
him and he was full of faith and power, and did great 
wonders and miracles among the people. There was 
no resisting the wisdom and the spirit by which he 
spake. How important it is that every man shall be 
filled with the Holy Spirit. 

Tongues and Interpretation: “The divine will is 
that you should be filled with God; for the power of 
the Spirit to fill you with the mightiness of God. 


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There is nothing God will withhold from a man filled 
with the Holy Ghost. 

I want to impress the importance of this upon you. 
It is not healing that I am presenting to you—it is 
the living Christ. It is a glorious fact that the Son 
of God came down to bring liberty to the captives. 
And He it is who baptizes with the Holy Ghost and 
fire, who is shedding forth this which we are now see¬ 
ing and hearing. 

How is it that the moment you are filled with the. 
Holy Ghost persecution starts ? It was so with the 
Lord Jesus Himself. We do not read of any persecu¬ 
tions before the Holy Spirit came down like a dove 
upon Him. Shortly after this we find that, after 
preaching in His home town, they wanted to throw 
Him over the brow of a hill. It was the same with 
the twelve disciples. They had no persecution before 
the day of Pentecost; but after they were filled with 
the Spirit, they were soon in prison. The devil and 
the priests of religion will always get stirred when a 
man is filled with the Spirit and does things in the 
power of the Spirit. And persecution is the greatest 
blessing to a church. When we have persecution we 
will have purity. If you desire to be filled with the 
Spirit you can count on one thing, and that is perse¬ 
cution. The Lord came to bring division, and even 
in your own household you may find three against 
two. 

The Lord Jesus came to bring peace; and soon after 
you get peace within, you get persecution without. 
If you remain stationary, the devil and his agents will 
not disturb you much. But when you press on and 
go the whole length with God the enemy has you as 
a target. But God will vindicate you in the midst of 
the whole thing. 

At a meeting I was holding, the Lord was working 
and many were being healed. A man saw what was 
taking place and remarked, “I’d like to try this thing.” 
He came up for prayer and told me that his body was 
broken in two places. I laid my hands on him in the 


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name of the Lord, and said to him, “Now, you believe 
God.” The next night he was at meeting and he got 
up like a lion. He said, “I want to tell you people that 
this man here is deceiving you. He laid his hands on 
me last night for rupture in two places, but I’m not 
a bit better.” I stopped him and said, “You are 
healed, your trouble is that you won’t believe it.” 

He was at meeting the next night and when there 
was opportunity for testimony this man arose. He 
said, “I’m a mason by trade. Today I was working 
with a laborer and he had to put a big stone in place. 
I helped him and did not feel any pain. I said to my¬ 
self, ‘How have I done it?’ I went away to a place 
where I could strip, and found that I was healed.” I 
told the people, “Last night this man was against the 
Word of God, but now he believes it. It is true that 
these signs shall follow them that believe, they shall 
lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. And 
all through the power that is in the name of Christ.” 
It is the Spirit who has come to reveal the Word 
of God, and to make it spirit and life to us. 

You people who are seeking the Baptism are en¬ 
tering a place where you will have persecution. Your 
best friends will leave you—or those you may esteem 
your best friends. No good friend will ever leave you. 
But it is worth while. You enter into a realm of il¬ 
lumination, of revelation by the power of the Holy 
Ghost. He reveals the preciousness and the power 
of the blood of Christ. I find by the revelation of 
the Spirit that there is not one thing in me that the 
blood does not cleanse. I find that God sanctifies me 
by the blood and reveals the efficacy of the work by 
the Spirit. 

Stephen was just an ordinary man clothed with the 
divine. He was full of faith and power, and great 
wonders and miracles were wrought by him. Oh, this 
life in the Holy Ghost! this life of deep, inward reve¬ 
lation, of transformation from one state to another, 
of growing in grace and in all knowledge and in the 
power of the Spirit, the life and the mind of Christ 


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being renewed in you, and of constant revelations of 
the might of His power. It is only this kind of thing 
that will enable us to stand. 

In this life, the Lord puts you in all sorts of places, 
and then reveals His power. I had been preaching in 
New York, and sailed one day for England on the 
Lusitania. As soon as I got on board I went down to 
my cabin. Two men were there, and one of them 
said, “Well, will I do for company?” He took out a 
bottle and poured out a glass of whiskey and drank 
it, and then he filled it up for me. “I never touch that 
stuff,” I said. “How can you live without it?” he 
asked. “How could I live with it?” I asked. He ad¬ 
mitted, “I have been under the influence of this stuff 
for months, and they say my ‘inside is all shrivelled 
up/ and I know that I am dying. I wish I could be 
delivered, but I just have to keep on drinking. Oh, 
if I could only be delivered! My father died in Eng¬ 
land and has given me his fortune, but what will the 
good of it be to me except to hasten me to my grave ?” 

I said to this man, “Say the word, and you will be 
delivered.” He enquired, “What do you mean?” I 
said, “Say the word, show that you are willing to be 
delivered and God will deliver you.” But it was just 
as if I was talking to this platform for all the com¬ 
prehension he showed. I said to him, “Stand still;” 
and I laid my hands on his head in the name of Jesus 
and cursed that drink demon that was taking his life. 
He cried out, “I’m free! I’m free ! I know I’m free !” 
He took two bottles of whiskey and threw them over 
board, and God saved, sobered and healed him. I was 
preaching all the way across. He sat beside me at 
the table. Previous to this he had not been able to 
eat; but at every meal he went right through the 
menu. You only have to have a touch from Jesus to 
have a good time. The power of God is just the same 
today. To me, He’s lovely. To me, He’s saving 
health. To me, He’s the lily of the valley. O this 
blessed Nazarene, this King of Kings! Hallelujah! 
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have you? If you will, all His power is at your dis¬ 
posal. 

They were not able to resist the wisdom and spirit 
by which Stephen spake, and so, full of rage, they 
brought him to the council. And God filled his face 
with a ray of heaven’s light. It is worth being filled 
with the Spirit, no matter what it costs. Read the 
seventh chapter, the mighty prophetic utterance by 
this holy man. Without fear he tells them, “Ye stiff¬ 
necked and uncircumcised in heart, ye do always re¬ 
sist the Holy Ghost.” And when they heard these 
things they were cut to the heart. There are two 
ways of being affected at the heart. Here they 
gnashed their teeth and cast him out of the city and 
stoned him. On the day of Pentecost, when they 
were pricked at the heart they cried out, “What shall 
we do?” They took the opposite way. The devil, 
if he can have his way, will cause you to commit mur¬ 
der. If Jesus has His way, you will repent. 

And Stephen, full of the Holy Ghost, looked up 
steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, 
and the Son of man standing on the right hand of 
God. O, this being full of the Holy Ghost! How 
much it means. I was riding for sixty miles one 
summer day and as I looked up in the heavens I had 
an open vision of Jesus all the way. It takes the 
Holy Ghost to give this. 

Stephen cried out, “Lord, lay not this sin to their 
charge.” As he was full of the Spirit he was full of 
love, and he manifested the very same compassion ior 
his enemies that Jesus did at Calvary. This being 
filled with the Holy Ghost means much in every way. 
It means constant filling, quickening, and a new life 
continually. Oh, it’s lovely! We have a wonderful 
gospel and a great Saviour! If you will but be filled 
with the Holy Ghost you will have a constant spring 
within, yea, as your faith centers in the Lord Jesus, 
from within you shall flow rivers of living water. 


CHAPTER XII 


THE BIBLE EVIDENCE OF THE BAPTISM OF THE 
HOLY SPIRIT 

There is much controversy today as regards the 
genuineness of this Pentecostal work, but there is 
nothing so convincing as the fact that over fifteen 
years ago a revival on Holy Ghost lines began and has 
never ceased. You will find that in every clime 
throughout the world God has poured out His Spirit 
in a remarkable way in a line parallel with the glo¬ 
rious revival that inaugurated the church of the first 
century. People, who could not understand what 
God was doing when He kept them concentrated in 
prayer, wondered as these days were being brought 
about by the Holy Ghost, and found themselves in 
exactly the same place and entering into an identical 
experience as the Apostles on the day of Pentecost. 

Our Lord Jesus said to His disciples, “Behold, I send 
the promise of My Father upon you: but tarry ye in 
the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power 
from on high” (Luke 24:49). God promised through 
the prophet Joel, “I will pour out My Spirit upon all 
flesh. . . . Upon the servants and upon the hand¬ 
maids in those days will I pour out My Spirit.” As 
there is a widespread misconception concerning this 
receiving of the Holy Spirit, I believe the Lord would 
have us examine the Scriptures on this subject. 

You know, beloved, it had to be something on the 
line of solid facts to move me. I was as certain as 
possible that I had received the Holy Ghost, and was 
absolutely rigid in this conviction. When this Pen¬ 
tecostal outpouring began in England I went to Sun¬ 
derland and met with the people who had assembled 
for the purpose of receiving the Holy Ghost. I was 


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continuously in those meetings causing disturbances 
until the people wished I had never come. They said 
that I was disturbing the whole conditions. But I 
was hungry and thirsty for God, and had gone to Sun¬ 
derland because I heard that God was pouring out His 
Spirit in a new way. I heard that God had now visited 
His people, had manifested His power and that people 
were speaking in tongues as on the day of Pentecost. 

When I got to this place I said, “I cannot under¬ 
stand this meeting. I have left a meeting in Bradford 
all on fire for God. The fire fell last night and we 
were all laid out under the power of God. I have 
come here for tongues, and I don’t hear them—I don’t 
hear anything.” 

“Oh!” they said, “when you get baptized with the 
Holy Ghost you will speak in tongues.” “Oh, is that 
it?” said I, “when the presence of God came upon me, 
my tongue was loosened, and really I felt as I went 
in the open air to preach that I had a new tongue.” 
“Ah no,” they said, “that is not it.” “What is it, 
then?” I asked. They said, “When you get bap¬ 
tized in the Holy Ghost-” “I am baptized,” I in¬ 

terjected, “and there is no one here who can persuade 
me that I am not baptized.” So I was up against them 
and they were up against me. 

I remember a man getting up and saying, “You 
know, brothers and sisters, I was here three weeks 
and then the Lord baptized me with the Holy Ghost 
and I began to speak with other tongues.” I said, 
“Let us hear it. That’s what Fm here for.” But he 
would not talk in tongues. I was doing what others 
are doing today, confusing the 12th of 1 Corinthians 
with the 2nd of Acts. These two chapters deal with 
different things, one with the gifts of the Spirit, and 
the other with the Baptism of the Spirit with the ac¬ 
companying sign. I did not understand this and so 
I said to the man, “Let’s hear you speak in tongues.” 
But he could not. He had not received the “gift” of 
tongues, but the Baptism. 

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gry. I had opposed the meetings so much, but the 
Lord was gracious, and I shall ever remember that 
last day—the day I was to leave. God was with me 
so much that last night. They were to have a meet¬ 
ing and I went, but I could not rest. I went to the v 
Vicarage, and there in the library I said to Mrs. 
Boddy, “I cannot rest any longer, I must have these 
tongues.” She replied, “Brother Wigglesworth, it is 
not the tongues you need but the Baptism. If you 
will allow God to baptize you, the other will be all 
right.” “My dear sister, I know I am baptized,” I 
said. “You know that I have to leave here at 4 
o’clock. Please lay hands on me that I may receive 
the tongues.” 

She rose up and laid her hands on me and the fire 
fell. ..I said, “The fire’s falling.” Then came a per¬ 
sistent knock at the door, and she had to go out. That 
was the best thing that could have happened, for I 
was ALONE WITH GOD. Then He gave me a reve¬ 
lation. Oh it was wonderful! He showed me an 
empty cross and Jesus glorified. I do thank God that 
the cross is empty, that Christ is no more on the 
cross. It was there that He bore the curse, for it 
is written, “Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a 
tree.” He became sin for us that we might be made 
the righteousness of God in Him, and now, there He 
is in the glory. Then I saw that God had purified 
me. It seemed that God gave me a new vision, and 
I saw a perfect being within me with mouth open, 
saying, “Clean! Clean! Clean!” When I began to re¬ 
peat it I found myself speaking in other tongues. The 
joy was so great that when I came to utter it my 
tongue failed, and I began to worship God in other 
tongues as the Spirit gave me utterance. 

It was all as beautiful and peaceful as when Jesus 
said, “Peace, be still!’ and the tranquility of that mo¬ 
ment and the joy surpassed anything I had ever 
known up to that moment. But, Hallelujah! these 
days have grown with greater, mightier, more won¬ 
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but the beginning. There is no end to this kind 
of beginning. You will never get an end to the 
Holy Ghost till you are landed in the glory—till you 
are right in the presence of God for ever. And even 
then we shall ever be conscious of His presence. 

What had I received ? I had received the Bible evi¬ 
dence. This Bible evidence is wonderful to me. I 
knew I had received the very evidence of the Spirit’s 
incoming that the Apostles received on the day of 
Pentecost. I knew that everything I had had up to 
that time was in the nature of an anointing bringing 
me in line with God in preparation, but now I knew 
I had the Biblical Baptism in the Spirit. It had the 
backing of the Scriptures. You are always right 
when you have the backing of the Scriptures and you 
are never right if you have not a foundation for your 
testimony in the Word of God. 

For many years I have thrown out a challenge to 
any person who can prove to me that he has the Bap¬ 
tism without speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives 
utterance—to prove it by the Word that he has been 
baptized in the Holy Ghost without the Bible evidence, 
but so far no one has accepted the challenge. I only 
say this because so many were like I was, they have 
a rigid idea that they have received the Baptism with¬ 
out the Bible evidence. The Lord Jesus wants those 
who preach the Word to have the Word in evidence. 
Don’t be misled by anything else. Have a Bible 
proof for all you have, and then you will be in a place 
where no man can move you. 

I was so full of joy that I wired home to say that 
I had received the Holy Ghost. As soon as I got 
home, my boy came running up to me and said, “Fa¬ 
ther, have you received the Holy Ghost?” I said, 
“Yes, my boy.” He said, “Let’s hear you speak in 
tongues.” But I could not. Why? I had received 
the Baptism in the Spirit with the speaking in tongues 
as the Bible evidence according to Acts 2 :4, and had 
not received the gift of Tongues according to 1 Co¬ 
rinthians 12. I had received the Giver of all gifts. 


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At some time later when I was helping some souls to 
seek and receive the Baptism of the Spirit, God gave 
me the gift of Tongues so that I could speak at any 
time. I could speak, but will not—no never! I must 
allow the Holy Ghost to use the gift. It should be 
so, so that we shall only have divine utterances by the 
Spirit. I would be very sorry to use a gift, but the 
Giver has all power to use the whole nine gifts. 

I want to take you to the Scriptures to prove 
my position. There are business men here, and they 
know that in cases of law, where there are two clear 
witnesses they could win a case before any judge 
in Australia. On the clear evidence of two witnesses 
any judge will give a verdict. What has God given 
us ? Three clear witnesses on the Baptism in the Holy 
Spirit—more than are necessary in law courts. 

The first is in Acts 2 :4, “They were all filled with 
the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other 
tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Here 
we have the original pattern. And God gave to Peter 
an eternal word that couples this experience with the 
promise that went before. “This is that.” And God 
wants you to have that—nothing less than that. He 
wants you to receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit 
according to this original Pentecostal pattern. 

In Acts 10 we have another witness. Peter is in the 
house of Cornelius. Cornelius had had a vision of 
an holy angel and had sent for Peter. A person said 
to me one day, “You don’t admit that I am filled and 
baptized with the Holy Ghost. Why, I was ten days 
and ten nights on my back before the Lord and He 
was flooding my soul with joy.” I said, “Praise the 
Lord, sister, that was only the beginning. The dis¬ 
ciples were tarrying that time, and they were still, 
and the mighty power of God fell upon them then 
and the Bible tells what happened when the power 
fell.” And that is just what happened in the house 
of Cornelius. The Holy Ghost fell on all them which 
heard the word. “And they of the circumcision which 
believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, 


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because that on the Gentiles was poured out the gift 
of the Holy Ghost.” What convinced these prejudiced 
Jews that the Holy Ghost had come? “For they 
heard them speak with tongues and magnify God.” 
There was no other way for them to know. This evi¬ 
dence could not be contradicted. It is the Bible 
evidence. 

If some people in this district had an angel come 
and talk to them as Cornelius had, they would say 
that they knew they were baptized. Do not be fooled 
by anything. Be sure that what you receive is ac¬ 
cording to the Word of God. 

We have heard two witnesses, and that is sufficient 
to satisfy the world. But God goes one better. Let 
us look at Acts 19:6, “And when Paul had laid his 
hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and 
they spake with tongues and prophesied.” These 
Ephesians received the identical Bible evidence as the 
Apostles at the beginning and they prophesied in ad¬ 
dition. Three times the Scriptures show us this evi¬ 
dence of the Baptism in the Spirit. I do not mag¬ 
nify tongues. No, by God’s grace, I magnify the 
Giver of tongues. And I magnify above all Him 
whom the Holy Ghost has come to reveal to us, the 
Lord Jesus Christ. He it is who sends the Holy Spirit 
and I magnify Him because He makes no difference 
between us and those at the beginning. 

But what are tongues for? Look at the 2nd verse 
of 1 Cor. 14 and you will see a very blessed truth. O 
Hallelujah! Have you been there, beloved? I tell 
you, God wants to take you there. “He that speaketh 
in an unknown tongue, speaketh not unto men, but 
unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit 
in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.” It goes on to 
say, “He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edi- 
fieth himself.” 

Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheri¬ 
tance. You will do more in one year if you are really 
filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty 
years apart from Him. 


CHAPTER XIII 
CONCERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTS 
THE WORD OF WISDOM 

In 1 Cor. 12:1 we read, “Now concerning spiritual 
gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant/' There 
is a great weakness in the church of Christ because 
of an awful ignorance concerning the Spirit of God 
and the gifts He has come to bring. God would have 
us powerful on all lines because of the revelation of 
the knowledge of His will concerning the power and 
manifestation of His Spirit. He would have us ever 
hungry to receive more and more of His Spirit. In 
times past I have arranged many conventions, and I 
have found that it is better to have a man on my 
platform who has not received the Baptism but who 
is hungry for all that God has for him, than a man 
who has received the Baptism and is satisfied and has 
settled down and become stationary and stagnant. 
But of course I would prefer a man that is baptized 
with the Holy Ghost and is still hungry for more of 
God. A man who is not hungry to receive more of 
God is out of order in any convention. 

It is impossible to overestimate the importance of 
being filled with the Spirit. It is impossible for us to 
meet the conditions of the day, to walk in the light as 
He is in the light, to subdue kingdoms and work 
righteousness and bind the power of Satan unless we 
are filled with the Holy Ghost. 

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We read that in the early church they continued 
steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, 
and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. It is im¬ 
portant for us also to continue steadfastly in these 
same things. For some years I was associated with 
the Plymouth Brethren. They are very strong on the 
Word, and are sound on water baptism, and they do 
not neglect the breaking of bread service, but have 
it every Lord’s Day morning as they had it in the 
early church. These people seem to have everything 
except the match. They have the wood, but they need 
the fire and then they would be all ablaze. Because 
they lack the fire of the Holy Spirit there is no life in 
their meetings. One young man who attended their 
meetings received the Baptism with the speaking in 
other tongues as the Spirit gave utterance. The 
brethren were very upset about this and came to the 
father and said to him, “You must take your son 
aside and tell him to cease.” They did not want any 
disturbance. The father told the son and said, “My 
boy, I have been attending this church for twenty 
years and have never seen anything of this kind. We 
are established in the truth and do not want any¬ 
thing new. We won’t have it.” The son replied, “If 
that is God’s plan I will obey, but somehow or other 
I don’t think it is.” As they were going home the 
horse stood still; the wheels were in deep ruts. The 
father pulled at the reins but the horse did not move. 
He asked, “What do you think is up?” The son an¬ 
swered, “It has got established.” God save us from 
becoming stationary. 

God would have us to understand concerning spir¬ 
itual gifts and to covet earnestly the best gifts, and 
also to enter into the more excellent way of the fruit 
of the Spirit. We must beseech God for these gifts. 
It is a serious thing to have the Baptism and yet be 
stationary; to live two days in succession on the same 
spiritual plane is a tragedy. We must be willing to 


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deny ourselves everything to receive the revelation 
of God’s truth and to receive the fulness of the Spirit. 
Only that will satisfy God, and nothing less must sat¬ 
isfy us. A young Russian received the Holy Spirit 
and was mightily endued with power from on High. 
Some sisters were anxious to know the secret of his 
power. The secret of his power was continuous wait¬ 
ing upon God. As the Holy Ghost filled him it seemed 
as though every breath became a prayer and so all 
his ministry was on an increasing line. 

I knew a man who was full of the Holy Ghost and 
would only preach when he knew that he was might¬ 
ily unctionized by the power of God. He was asked 
to preach at a Methodist church. He was staying at 
the minister’s house and he said, “You go on to church 
and I will follow.” The place was packed with people 
but this man did not turn up and the Methodist min¬ 
ister, becoming anxious, sent his little girl to inquire 
why he did not come. As she came to the bedroom 
door she heard him crying out three times, “I will not 
go.” She went back and reported that she heard the 
man say three times that he would not go. The min¬ 
ister was troubled about it, but almost immediately 
after this the man came in, and, as he preached that 
night, the power of God was tremendously manifest¬ 
ed. The preacher asked him, “Why did you tell my 
daughter that you were not coming?” He answered, 
“I know when I am filled. I am an ordinary man 
and I told the Lord that I dared not go and would 
not go until He gave me a fresh filling of the Spirit. 
The moment the glory filled me and overflowed I 
came to the meeting.” 

Yes, there is a power, a blessing, an assurance, a 
rest in the presence of the Holy Ghost. You can feel 
His presence and know that He is with you. You 
need not spend an hour without this inner knowledge 
of His holy presence. With His power upon you there 
can be no failure. You are above par all the time. 


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“Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto 
these dumb idols, even as ye were led.” This is the 
Gentile day. When the Jews refused the blessings of 
God He scattered them, and He has grafted the Gen¬ 
tiles into the olive tree where the Jews were broken 
off. There never has been a time when God has been 
so favorable to a people who were not a people. He 
has brought in the Gentiles to carry out His purpose 
of preaching the gospel to all nations and to receive 
the power of the Holy Ghost to accomplish this task. 
It is of the mercy of God that He has turned to the 
Gentiles and made us partakers of all the blessings 
that belong to the Jews; and here under this canopy 
of glory, because we believe, we get all the blessings 
of faithful Abraham. 

“Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man 
speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: 
and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but 
by the Holy Ghost.” There are many evil, deceiving 
spirits sent forth in these last days who endeavor to 
rob Jesus of His Lordship and of His rightful place, 
Many are opening the doors to these latest devils, 
such as New Theology and New Thought and Chris¬ 
tian Science. These evil cults deny the fundamental 
truths of God’s Word. They all deny eternal punish¬ 
ment and all deny the deity of Jesus Christ. You will 
never see the Baptism of the Holy Ghost come upon 
a man who accepts these errors. Neither will you 
see a Romanist receive. They put Mary in the place 
of the Holy Ghost. I would like you to produce a 
Romanist who knows that he is saved. No man can 
know he is saved by works. If you ever speak to a 
Romanist you will know that he is not definite on 
the line of the new birth. They cannot be. Another 
thing, you will never find a Russellite baptized in the 
Holy Ghost; nor a member of any other cult that does 
not put the Lord Jesus Christ pre-eminent above all. 


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The all important thing is to make Jesus Lord.* 
Men can grow lopsided by emphasizing the truth of 
divine healing. Man can get wrong by all the time 
preaching on water baptism. But we never go wrong 
in exalting the Lord Jesus Christ, giving Him the pre¬ 
eminent place and magnifying Him as both Lord and 
Christ, yes, as very God of very God. As we are filled 
with the Holy Ghost our one desire is to magnify 
Him. We need to be filled with the Spirit to get the 
full revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

God’s command is for us to be filled with the Spirit. 
We are no good if we only have a full cup. We need 
to have an overflowing cup all the time. It is a trag¬ 
edy not to live in the fulness of overflowing. See that 
you never live below the overflowing tide. 

“Now there are diversities of gifts but the same 
Spirit.” Every manifestation of the Spirit is given 
that we might “profit withal.” When the Holy Spirit 
is moving in an assembly and Elis gifts are in opera¬ 
tion, everyone will receive profit. I have seen some 
who have been terribly switched. They believe in 
gifts, in prophecy, and they use these gifts apart from 
the power of the Holy Ghost. We must look to the 
Holy Spirit to show us the use of the gifts, what they 
are for, and when to use them, so that we may never 
use them without the power of the Holy Ghost. I do 
not know of anything which is so awful today as 
people using a gift without the power. Never do it. 
God save us from doing it. 

A man who is filled with the Holy Ghost, while he 
may not be conscious of having any gift of the Spirit, 
can have the gifts made manifest through him. I 


*“If thou shalt confess with thy mouth JESUS AS LORD, 
and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from 
the dead, thou shalt be saved” (Romans 10:9). 

“For TO THIS END Christ died and lived again, THAT 
HE MIGHT BE LORD of both the dead and the living” 
(Romans 14:9). 



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have gone to many places to help and have found that 
under the unction of the Holy Spirit many wonderful 
things have happened in the midst when the glory of 
the Lord was upon the people. Any man who is filled 
with God and filled with His Spirit might at any mo¬ 
ment have any of the nine gifts made manifest 
through him without knowing that he has a gift. 
Sometimes I have wondered whether it was better to 
be always full of the Holy Ghost and to see signs and 
wonders and miracles without any consciousness of 
possessing a gift, or whether it was better to know 
one has a gift. If you have received the gifts of the 
Spirit and they have been blessed, you should never 
under any circumstances use them without the power 
of God upon you pressing the gift through. Some 
have used the prophetic gift without the holy touch, 
and they have come into the realm of the natural, and 
it has brought ruin, caused dissatisfaction, broken 
hearts, upset assemblies. Do not seek the gifts un¬ 
less you are purposed to abide in the Holy Spirit. 
They should be manifested only in the power of the 
Holy Spirit. 

The Lord will allow you to be very drunk in His 
presence, but sober among people. I like to see peo¬ 
ple so filled with the Spirit that they are drunk like 
the 120 on the Day of Pentecost, but I don’t like to see 
people drunk in the wrong place. That is what trou¬ 
bles us, somebody being drunk in a place of worship 
where a lot of people come in that know nothing 
about the Word. If you allow yourself to be drunk 
there you send people away, they look at you instead 
of seeing God. They condemn the whole thing be¬ 
cause you have not been sober at the right time. Paul 
writes, “For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to 
God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause” 
(2 Cor. 5:13). You can be beside yourself. You can 
go a bit further than being drunk. You can dance, 
if you will do it at the right time. So many things 


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are commendable when all the people are in the Spirit. 
Many things are very foolish if the people round about 
you are not in the Spirit. We must be careful not to 
have a good time at the expense of somebody else. 
When you have a good time you must see that the 
spiritual conditions in the place lend themselves to 
help you and that the people are falling in line with 
you. Then you will find it always a blessing. 

While it is right to covet earnestly the best gifts, 
you must recognize that the all important thing is to 
be filled with the power of the Holy Ghost Himself. 
You will never have trouble with people who are filled 
with the power of the Holy Ghost, but you will have a 
lot of trouble with people who have the gifts and have 
no power. The Lord wants us to come behind in no 
gift, but at the same time He wants us to be so filled 
with the Holy Ghost that it will be the Holy Spirit 
manifesting Himself through the gifts. Where the 
glory of God alone is desired you can look for every 
needed gift to be made manifest. To glorify God is 
better than to idolize gifts. We prefer the Spirit of 
God to any gift; but we can look for the Trinity in 
manifestation, different gifts by the same Spirit, dif¬ 
ferent administrations but the same Lord, diversities 
of operation but the same God working all in all. Can 
you conceive of what it will mean for our Triune God 
to be manifesting Himself in His fulness in our as¬ 
semblies? 

Watch that great locomotive boiler as it is filled 
with steam. You can see the engine letting off some 
of the steam as it remains stationary. It looks as 
though the whole thing might burst. You can see 
saints like. that. They start to scream, but that is not 
to edification. But when the locomotive moves on, it 
serves the purpose for which it was built, and pulls 
along much traffic with it. It is wonderful to be filled 
with the power of the Holy Ghost, and for Him to 
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divine utterances flow, our hearts rejoice and our 
tongue is glad. It is an inward power within which is 
manifested in outward expression. Jesus Christ is 
glorified. As your faith in Him is quickened, from 
within you there will flow rivers of living water. The 
Holy Spirit will pour through you like a great river 
of life and thousands will be blessed because you are 
a yielded channel through whom the Spirit may flow. 

The most important thing, the one thing that 
counts, is to see that we are filled with the Holy 
Spirit, filled to overflowing. Anything less than this 
is displeasing to God. We are commanded by God to 
be filled with the Spirit, and in the measure you fail 
of this you are that far short of the plan of God. The 
Lord would have us moving on from faith to faith, 
from glory to glory, from fulness to overflowing. 
It is not good for us to be ever thinking of the past 
tense, but we should be moving on to the place where 
we dare believe God. He has declared that after the 
Holy Ghost is come upon us we shall have power. I 
believe there is an avalanche of power from God to 
be apprehended if we will but catch the vision. 

Paul wrote at one time, “I will now come to vi¬ 
sions and revelations/’ God has put us in a place 
where He expects us to have His latest revelation, 
the revelation of that marvelous fact, CHRIST IN 
US, and what this really means. We can apprehend 
Christ fully only as we are filled and overflowing 
with the Spirit of God. Our only safeguard from 
dropping back into our natural mind from which we 
can never get anything, is to be filled and yet filled 
again with the Spirit of God and to be taken on to 
visions and revelations on a new line. The reason 
why I emphasize the importance of the fulness of 
the Holy Ghost is that I want to get you beyond all 
human plans and thoughts into the fulness of vision, 
into the full revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. Do 
you want rest? It is in Jesus. Do you want to be 


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saved from everything the devil is bringing up in 
these last times? Receive and continue in the ful¬ 
ness of the Holy Ghost, and He will be ever reveal¬ 
ing to you that all you need for all times is in Christ 
Jesus your Lord. 

I desire to emphasize the importance of the Spir¬ 
it’s ministration and of the manifestation of the 
Spirit which is given to every man to profit withal. 
As you yield to the Spirit of the Lord He has power 
over your intellect, over your heart, and over your 
voice. The Holy Spirit has power to unvail Christ 
and to project the vision of Christ upon the canvas 
of your mind, and then He uses your tongue to glo¬ 
rify and magnify Him in a way that you could never 
do apart from the Spirit’s power. 

Never say that when you are filled with the Holy 
Ghost you are “obliged” to do this or that. When 
people say that they are “obliged” to do this or that 
I know it is not the Spirit of God, but their own spir¬ 
it moving them on to do that which is unseemly and 
unprofitable. Lots of people spoil meetings because 
they scream. If you want to do that kind of thing 
you had better get into some cellar. That is not to 
edification. I believe that, when the Spirit of God is 
upon you and moving you to speak as He gives ut¬ 
terance, it will always be to edification. But 
don’t spoil the prayer meeting because when you 
ought to stop you go on. Who spoils the prayer 
meeting? The man who starts in the Spirit and fin¬ 
ishes in the flesh. Nothing is more lovely than pray¬ 
er, but a prayer meeting is killed if you will go on 
and on in your own spirit when the Spirit of God is 
through with you. You say as you come from some 
meetings, “That was a lovely message if the preacher 
only had stopped half an hour before he did.” Learn 
to cease immediately the unction of the Spirit lifts. 
The Holy Ghost is jealous. Your body is the temple, 
the office of the Holy Ghost, but He does not fill the 


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temple for human glorification, but only for the 
glory of God. You have no license to continue be¬ 
yond a “Thus saith the Lord.” 

"There is another side to this. God would have the 
assembly as free as possible, and you must not put 
your hand upon the working of the Spirit or it will 
surely bring trouble. You must be prepared to allow 
a certain amount of extravagance in young and new¬ 
ly baptized souls. You must remember that when 
you were brought into this life of the Spirit you had 
as many extravagances as anybody, but you have now 
become somewhat sobered down. It is a pity that 
some do get sobered down, for they are not where 
they were in the early days. We have to look to God 
for wisdom that we do not interfere or dampen the 
Spirit or quench the power of God when He is mani¬ 
fested in our meetings. If you want to have an as¬ 
sembly full of life you must have an assembly full of 
manifestation. Nobody will come if there is no mani¬ 
festation. We need to look to God for special grace 
that we do not move back to looking at things from 
a natural viewpoint. 

The preacher, after he loses his unction, should in¬ 
wardly repent and get right with God and get the 
unction back. W^e are no good without the unction 
of the Spirit of God. If you are filled with the grace 
of God you will not be judging everybody in- the as¬ 
sembly, you will rather be trusting everybody, you 
will not be frightened at what is being done, you will 
have a heart to believe all things, and to believe that 
though there may be some extravagances, the Spirit 
of God will take control of things and will see that 
the Lord Jesus Christ Himself is exalted, glorified, and 
revealed to hungry hearts that desire to know Him. 
The Lord would have us wise unto that which is good 
and simple concerning evil, free from distrust, enter¬ 
ing into a divine likeness to Jesus, that dares believe 


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that God Almighty will surely watch over all. Hal¬ 
lelujah! 

The Holy Ghost is the One who magnifies the Lord 
Jesus Christ, the One who gives illumination of Him. 
If you are filled with the Holy Ghost, it is impossible 
to keep your tongue still. Talk about a dumb bap¬ 
tized soul! It is not to be found in the Scriptures or 
outside of the Scriptures. We are filled with the Spir¬ 
it in order that we may magnify the Lord, and there 
should be no meeting in which the saints do not glo¬ 
rify, magnify, praise, and worship the Lord in Spirit 
and in truth. 

I would like to give-one word of caution, for failure 
often comes through our not recognizing the fact that 
we are always in the body. We will need our bodies 
as long as we live. But our body is to be used and 
controlled by the Spirit of God. We are to present 
our bodies, holy and acceptable unto God, which is our 
reasonable service. Every member of our body must 
be so sanctified that it works in harmony with the 
Spirit of God. Our very eyes must be sanctified. God 
hates the winking of the eye. From the day that I 
read in the Proverbs what God had to say about the 
winking of the eye (Prov. 6:13 and 10:10) I have 
never winked. I desire that my eyes may be so sanc¬ 
tified that they can always be used for the Lord. The 
Spirit of God will bring within us a compassion for 
souls that will be seen in our very eyes. 

God has never changed the order of things that, 
first, there comes the natural, and then the spiritual. 
For instance, when it is on your heart to pray, you 
begin in the natural and your second word will prob¬ 
ably be under the power of the Spirit. You begin and 
God will end. It is the same in giving forth utter¬ 
ances under the Spirit’s power. You feel the moving 
of the Spirit within and you begin to speak and the 
Spirit of God will give forth utterance. Thousands 
have missed wonderful blessings because they have 


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not had faith to move out and begin in the natural, in 
faith that the Lord would take them into the realm of 
the supernatural. When you receive the Holy Ghost 
you receive God’s gift, in whom are all the gifts of the 
Spirit. Paul counsels Timothy to stir up the gift that 
was within. You have power to stir up God’s execu¬ 
tive within you. The way you stir up the gift within 
you is by beginning in faith, and then He gives forth 
what is needed for the occasion. You would never 
begin unless you were full of God. When we yield 
to timidity and fear we simply yield to Satan. Satan 
whispers, “It is all self.” He is a liar. I have learned 
this, If the Spirit of God is stirring me up, I have no 
hesitation in beginning to speak in tongues, and the 
Spirit of God gives me utterance and gives me the in¬ 
terpretation. I find that every time I yield to the 
Lord on this line I get a divine touch, I get a leading 
thought from the Spirit of God, and the meeting is 
moved up on the line of faith. 

You attend a meeting in faith, believing that the 
Lord is going to meet you there. But perhaps the 
evangelist is not in harmony with God. The people 
in the assembly are not getting what God wants. The 
Lord knows it. He knows His people are hungry. 
What happens? He will take perhaps the smallest 
vessel and put His power upon them. As they yield 
to the Spirit they break forth in a tongue. Another 
yields to the Spirit and there comes forth the inter¬ 
pretation. The Lord’s church has to be fed, and the 
Lord will take this means of speaking to His people. 
Pentecostal people cannot be satisfied with the natural 
message. They are in touch with heavenly things and 
cannot be satisfied with anything less. They feel 
when there is something lacking in a meeting, and 
they look to God and He supplies that which is 
lacking. 

When a man is filled with the Spirit he has no con¬ 
ception of what he has. We are so limited in our 


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conception of what we have received. The only 
way we can know the power that has been given 
is through the ministration and manifestation of the 
Spirit of God. Do you think that Peter and John 
knew what they had when they went up to the tem¬ 
ple to pray? They were limited in thought, and lim¬ 
ited in their expression. The nearer we get to God 
the more conscious we are of the poverty of the hu¬ 
man, and we cry with Isaiah, “I am undone, I am un¬ 
clean.” But the Lord will bring the precious blood 
and the flaming coals for cleansing and refining and 
send us out to labor for Him empowered by His 
Spirit. 

God has sent forth this outpouring that we may all 
be brought into a revelation of our sonship — that we 
are sons of God, men of power, that we are to be like 
the Lord Jesus Christ, that we are to have the pow¬ 
ers of sonship, the power to lay hold of that which 
is weak and to quicken it. The Baptism of the Spirit 
is to make us sons of God with power. We will be 
conscious of our human limits, but we will not limit 
the Holy One who has come to dwell within. We 
must believe that since the Holy Ghost has come upon 
us we are indeed sons of God with power. Never say 
that “you can’t.” All things are possible to them that 
believe. Launch out into the deep and believe that 
God has His all for you, and that you can do all things 
through Him who strengthens you. 

Peter and John knew that they had been in the up¬ 
per room, they had felt the glory, they had been given 
divine utterances. They had seen conviction on the 
people. They knew that they had come into a won¬ 
derful thing. They knew that what they had would 
be ever increasing and that it would be ever needful 
to cry, “Enlarge the vessel that the Holy Ghost may 
have more room within.” They knew that all the old 
things were moved away and they had entered into 
an increasing and ever increasing knowledge of God, 


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and that it was their Master’s wish that they should 
be filled with the Spirit of God and with power every 
day and every hour. The secret of power is the un¬ 
vailing of Christ, the all-powerful One within, the rev¬ 
elation of God who comes to abide within us. As they 
looked upon the crippled man at the beautiful gate 
they were filled with compassion. They were prompt¬ 
ed by the Spirit to stop and speak with him. They 
said to the lame man, “Look on us.” It was God’s plan 
that the man should open his eyes with expectation. 
Peter said, “Of silver and gold we have none. But we 
have something and we will give it to you. We don’t 
know what it is, but we give it to you. It is all in 
the name of Jesus.” And then began the ministry of 
God. You begin in faith and you see what will hap¬ 
pen. It is hidden from us at the beginning, but as we 
have faith in God He will come forth. The coming 
forth of the power is not of us but of God. There is no 
limit to what He will do. It is all in a nutshell as you 
believe God. And so Peter said, “Such as I have I 
give to thee: in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth 
rise up and walk.” And the man who had been in that 
way for forty years stood up, and began to leap, and 
entered into the temple walking and leaping and 
praising God. 

“For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wis¬ 
dom.” I want you to keep in mind the importance 
of never expecting the gifts of the Spirit apart from 
the power of the Spirit. In coveting the best gifts, 
covet to be so full of God and His glory that the gifts 
in manifestation will always glorify Him. We do not 
know all and we cannot know all that can be brought 
forth in the manifestation of the word of wisdom. 
One word of wisdom from God, one flashlight on the 
Word of God, is sufficient to save us from a thousand 
pitfalls. People have built without a word from God, 
they have bought things without a word from God, 
and they have been ensnared. They have lacked that 


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word of wisdom which will bring them into God’s 
plan for their lives. I have been in many places where 
I have needed a word of wisdom from God and this 
has been vouchsafed. 

I will give you one instance. There is one thing I 
am very grateful to the Lord for, and that is that He 
has given me grace not to have a desire for money. 
The love of money is a great hindrance to many; and 
many a man is crippled in his ministry because he lets 
his heart run after financial matters. I was walking 
out one day when I met a godly man who lived op¬ 
posite me and he said, “My wife and I have been talk¬ 
ing together about selling our house and we feel con¬ 
strained to sell it to you.” As we talked together he 
persuaded me to buy his place, and before we said 
good-by I told him that I would take it. We always 
make big mistakes when we are in a hurry. I told 
my wife what I had promised, and she said, “How will 
you manage it?” I told her that I had managed 
things so far, but I did not know how I was going to 
get through this. I somehow knew that I was out of 
divine order. But when a fellow gets out of divine 
order it seems that the last person he goes to is God. 
I was relying on an architect to help me, but that 
scheme fell through. I turned to my relations and I 
certainly had a wet shirt as one after another turned 
me down. I tried my friends and managed no better. 
My wife said to me, “Thou hast never been to God 
yet.” What could I do? 

I have a certain place in our house where I go to 
pray. I have been there very often. As I went I 
said, “Lord, if You will get me out of this scrape, I 
will never trouble Thee on this line again.” As I wait¬ 
ed on the Lord He just gave me one word. It seemed 
a ridiculous thing, but it was the wisest counsel. There 
is divine wisdom in every word He speaks. I came 
down to my wife, saying, “What do you think? The 
Lord has told me to go to Brother Webster.” I said, 


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“It seems very ridiculous, for he is one of the poorest 
men I know.” He was the poorest man I knew, but 
he was also the richest man I knew, for he knew God. 
My wife said, “Do what God says, and it will be right.” 

I went off at once to see him, and he said as he 
greeted me, “Smith, what brings you so early?” I 
answered, “The word of God.” I said to him, “About 
three weeks ago I promised to buy a house of a man, 
and I am short 100 pounds ($500). I have tried to 
get this money, but somehow I seem to have missed 
God.” “How is it,” he asked, “that you have come to 
me only now?” I answered, “Because I went to the 
Lord about it only last night.” “Well,” he said, “it 
is a strange thing; three weeks ago I had 100 pounds. 
For years I have been putting money into a co-opera¬ 
tive system and three weeks ago I had to go and draw 
100 pounds out. I hid it under the mattress. Come 
with me and you shall have it. Take it. I hope it 
will bring as great a blessing to you as it has been a 
trouble to me.” I had had a word from God, and all my 
troubles were ended. This has been multiplied in a 
hundred ways since that time. If I had been walking 
along filled with the Holy Ghost, I would not have 
bought that house and would not have had all that 
strain. I believe the Lord wants to loose us from 
things of earth. But I am ever grateful for that word 
from God. There have been times in my life when I 
have been in si great crisis and under a great 
weight of intercession. I have gone to the meeting 
without the knowledge of what I would say, but 
somehow or other God would vouchsafe the coming 
forth under the power of the Spirit of some word of 
wisdom, just what some souls in that meeting needed. 
As we look to God His mind will be made known, and 
His revelation and His word of wisdom will be forth¬ 
coming. 


CHAPTER XIV 


THE WORD OF KNOWLEDGE, AND FAITH 

“To another the word of knowledge, by the same 
Spirit; to another faith, by the same Spirit” (1 Cor. 
12:8,9). 

We have not passed this way hitherto. I believe 
that Satan has many devices and that they are worse 
today than ever before; but I also believe that there 
is to be a full manifestation on the earth of the power 
and glory of God to defeat every device of Satan. 

In Ephesians 4 we are told to endeavor to keep the 
unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, for there is 
one body, and one Spirit, one Lord, one faith, one 
baptism, and one God and Father of all. The Baptism 
of the Spirit is to make us all one. Paul tells us in 
1 Cor. 12:13 that by one Spirit we are all baptized into 
one body, and have been all made to drink into one 
Spirit. It is God’s thought that we speak the same 
thing. If we all have the full revelation of the Spirit 
of God we shall all see the same thing. Paul asked 
these Corinthians, “Is Christ divided?” When the 
Holy Ghost has full control, Christ is never divided, 
His body is not divided, there is no division. Schism 
and division are the products of the carnal mind. 

How important it is that we shall have the mani¬ 
festation of “the word of knowledge” in our midst. 
It is the same Spirit who brings forth the word of 
wisdom that brings forth the word of knowledge. The 
revelation of the mysteries of God comes by the Spir¬ 
it, and we must have a supernatural word of knowl¬ 
edge in order to convey to others the things which the 


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Spirit of God has revealed. The Spirit of God reveals 
Christ in all His wonderful fullness, and He shows 
Him to us from the beginning to the end of the 
Scriptures. It is the Scriptures that make us wise 
unto salvation, that open to us the depths of the king¬ 
dom of heaven, which reveal all the divine mind to us. 

There are thousands of people who read and study 
the Word of God. But it is not quickened to them. 
The Bible is a dead letter except by the Spirit. The 
Word of God can never be vital and powerful in us 
except by the Spirit. The words that Christ spoke 
were not just dead words but they were spirit and 
life. And so it is the thought of God that a living 
word, a word of truth, the word of God, a super¬ 
natural word of knowledge, shall come forth from us 
through the power of the Spirit of God. It is the 
Holy Ghost who will bring forth utterances from our 
lips and a divine revelation of all the mind of God. 

The child of God ought to thirst for the Word. He 
should know nothing else but the Word, and should 
know nothing among men save Jesus. “Man shall 
not live by bread alone, but by every word which pro¬ 
ceeded out of the mouth of God.” It is as we feed 
on the Word and meditate on the message it contains, 
that the Spirit of God can vitalize that which we have 
received, and bring forth through us the word of 
knowledge that will be as full of power and life, as 
when He, the Spirit of God, moved upon holy men of 
old and gave them these inspired Scriptures. They 
ivere all inbreathed of God as they came forth at the 
beginning, and through the same Spirit they should 
come forth from us vitalized, living, powerful and 
sharper than any two-edged sword. 

With the gifts of the Spirit should come the fruit 
of the Spirit. With wisdom we should have love, with 
knowledge we should have joy, and with the third 
gift, faith, we should have the fruit of peace. Faith 
is always accompanied by peace. Faith always rests. 


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Faith laughs at impossibilities. Salvation is by faith, 
through grace, and it is the gift of God. We are kept 
by the power of God through faith. God gives faith 
and nothing can take it away. By faith we have 
power to enter into the wonderful things of God. 
There are three positions of faith; saving faith, which 
is the gift of God; the faith of the Lord Jesus; and 
the gift of faith. You will remember the word of the 
Lord Jesus Christ given to Paul, to which he refers 
in the 26th of Acts, where the Lord commissioned him 
to go to the Gentiles, “to open their eyes, and to turn 
them from darkness unto light, and from the power 
of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness 
of sins, and inheritance among them WHICH ARE 
SANCTIFIED BY FAITH THAT IS IN ME.” 

Oh, this wonderful faith of the Lord Jesus. Your 
faith comes to an end. How many times I have been 
to the place where I have had to tell the Lord, “I 
have used all the faith I have,” and then He has placed 
His own faith within me. 

One of our workers said to me at Christmas time, 
“Wigglesworth, I never was no near the end of my 
purse in my life.” I replied, “Thank God, you are 
just at the opening of God’s treasures.” It is when we 
are at the end of our own, that we can enter into the 
riches of God’s resources. It is when we possess 
nothing, that we can possess all things. 

The Lord will always meet you when you are on 
the line of living faith. I was in Ireland at one time 
and went to a house and said to the lady who came 
to the door, “Is Brother Wallace here?” She replied, 
“Oh, he has gone to Bangor, but God has sent you 
here for me. I need you. Come in.” She told me 
her husband was a deacon of the Presbyterian Church 
She had herself received the Baptism while she was 
a member of the Presbyterian Church, but they did 
not accept it as from God. The people of the church 
said to her husband, “This thing cannot go on. We 


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don’t want you to be deacon any longer, and your 
wife is not wanted in the church.” The man was very 
enraged and he became incensed against his wife. It 
seemed as though an evil spirit possessed him, and 
the home that had once been peaceful became very 
terrible. At last he left home and left no money be¬ 
hind him, and the woman asked me what should 
she do. 

We went to prayer and before we had prayed five 
minutes the woman was mightily filled with the Holy 
Ghost. I said to her, “Sit down and let me talk to 
you. Are you often in the Spirit like this?” She said, 
“Yes, and what could I do without the Holy Ghost 
now?” I said to her, “The situation is yours. The 
Word of God says that you have power to sanctify 
your husband. Dare to believe the Word of God. 
Now the first thing we must do is to pray that your 
husband come back tonight.” She said, “I know he 
won’t.” I said, “If we agree together, it is done.” She 
said, “I will agree.” I said to her, “When he comes 
home show him all possible love, lavish everything 
upon him. If he won’t hear what you have to say, let 
him go to bed. The situation is yours. Get down be¬ 
fore God and claim him for the Lord. Get into the 
glory just as you have got in today, and as the Spirit 
of God prays through you, you will find that God will 
grant all the desires of your heart.” 

A month later I saw this sister at a convention. She 
told how her husband came home that night and that 
he went to bed, but she prayed right through to vic¬ 
tory and then laid her hands upon him. The moment 
she laid hands upon him he cried out for mercy. The 
Lord saved him and baptized him in the Holy Spirit. 
The power of God is beyond all our conception. The 
trouble is that we do not have the power of God in 
a full manifestation because of our finite thoughts, 
but as we go on and let God have His way, there is 
no limit to what our limitless God will do in response 


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to a limitless faith. But you will never get anywhere 
except you are in constant pursuit of all the power 
of God. 

One day when I came home from our open-air 
meeting at eleven o’clock I found that my wife was 
out. I asked, “Where is she?” I was told that she 
was down at Mitchell’s. I had seen Mitchell that 
day and knew that he was at the point of death. I 
knew that it was impossible for him to survive the 
day unless the Lord undertook. 

There are many who let down in sickness and do 
not take hold of the life of the Lord Jesus Christ that 
is provided for them. I was taken to see a woman 
who was dying and said to her, “How are things with 
you?” She answered, “I have faith, I believe.” I 
said, “You know that you have not faith, you know 
that you are dying. It is not faith that you have, it 
is language.” There is a difference between language 
and faith. I saw that she was in the hands of the 
devil. There was no possibility of life until he was 
removed from the premises. I hate the devil, and I 
laid hold of the woman and shouted, “Come out, you 
devil of death. I command you to come out in the 
name of Jesus.” In one minute she stood on her feet 
in victory. 

But to return to the case of Brother Mitchell, I 
hurried down to the house, and as I got near I heard 
terrible screams. I knew that something had hap¬ 
pened. I passed Mrs. Mitchell on the staircase and 
asked, “What is up?” She replied, “He is gone! He 
is gone!” I just passed her and went into the room, 
and immediately I saw that Mitchell had gone. I 
could not understand it, but I began to pray. My wife 
was always afraid that I would go too far, and she 
laid hold of me and said, “Don’t, Dad! Don’t you see 
that he is dead?” I continued to pray and my wife 
continued to cry out to me, “D©n’t, Dad. Don’t you 
see that he is dead?” But I continued praying. I 


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got as far as I could with my own faith, and then God 
laid hold of me. Oh, it was such a laying hold that 
I could believe for anything. The faith of the Lord 
Jesus laid hold of me and a solid peace came into my 
heart. I shouted, “He lives! He lives! He lives!” 
And he is living today. There is a difference between 
our faith and the faith of the Lord Jesus. The faith 
of the Lord Jesus is needed. We must change faith 
from time to time. Your faith may get to a place 
where it wavers. The faith of Christ never wavers. 
When you have that faith the thing is finished. When 
you have that faith you will never look at things as 
they are, you will see the things of nature give way 
to the things of the Spirit, you will see the temporal 
swallowed up in the eternal. 

I was at a camp meeting in Cazadero, California, 
about eight years ago, and a remarkable thing hap¬ 
pened. A man came there who was stone deaf. I 
prayed for him and I knew that God had healed him. 
Then came the test. He would always move his chair 
up to the platform, and every time I got up to speak 
he would get up as close as he could and strain his 
ears to catch what I had to say. The devil said, “It 
isn’t done.” I declared, “It is done.” This went on 
for three weeks and then the manifestation came and 
he could hear distinctly sixty yards away. When his 
ears were opened he thought it was so great that he 
had to stop the meeting and tell everybody about it. 
I met him in Oakland recently and he was hearing 
perfectly. As we remain stedfast and unmoveable on 
the ground of faith, we shall see what we believe for 
in perfect manifestation. 

People say to me, “Have you not the gift of faith?” 
I say that it is an important gift, but what is still 
more important is for us every moment to be making 
an advancement in God. Looking at the Word of God 
today I find that its realities are greater to me today 
than they were yesterday. It is the most sublime, 


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joyful truth that God brings an enlargement. Always 
an enlargement. There is nothing dead, dry or bar¬ 
ren in this life of the Spirit; God is always moving us 
on to something higher, and as we move on in the 
Spirit our faith will always rise to the occasion as 
different circumstances arise. 

This is how the gift of faith is manifested. You 
see an object and you know that your own faith is 
nothing in the case. The other day I was in San 
Francisco. I sat on a car and saw a boy in great 
agonies on the street. I said, “Let me get out.” I 
rushed to where the boy was. He was in agony 
through cramp of the stomach. I put my hands on 
his stomach in the name of Jesus. The boy jumped, 
and stared at me with astonishment. He found him¬ 
self instantly free. The gift of faith dared in the 
face of everything. It is as we are in the Spirit that 
the Spirit of God will operate this gift anywhere and 
at any time. 

When the Spirit of God is operating this gift within 
a man, He causes him to know what God is going 
to do. When the man with the withered hand was 
in the synagogue, Jesus got all the people to look 
to see what would happen. The gift of faith always 
knows the results. He said to the man, “Stretch forth 
thine hand.” His word had creative force. He was 
not living on the line of speculation. He spoke and 
something happened. He spake at the beginning and 
the world came into being. He speaks today and 
these things have to come to pass. He is the Son of 
God and came to bring us into sonship. He was the 
firstfruit of the resurrection and He calls us to be 
firstfruits, to be the same kind of fruit like to Himself. 

There is an important point here. You cannot have 
the gifts by mere human desire. The Spirit of God 
distributes them severally as He will. God cannot 
trust some with the gift, but some who have a low¬ 
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was in a meeting- where there were a lot of doctors 
and eminent men, and many ministers. It was at a 
convention, and the power of God fell on the meeting. 
One humble little girl that waited at table opened her 
being to the Lord and was immediately filled with 
the Holy Ghost and began to speak in tongues. All 
these big men stretched their necks and looked up to 
see what was happening and were saying, “Who is 
it ?” Then they learned it was “the servant!” No¬ 
body received but “the servant!” These things are 
hidden and kept back from the wise and prudent, but 
the little children, the lowly ones, are the ones that 
receive. We cannot have faith if we have honor one 
of another. A man who is going on with God won’t 
accept honor from his fellow beings. God honors the 
man of a broken, contrite spirit. How shall I get 
there ? So many people want to do great things, and 
to be seen doing them, but the one that God will use 
is the one that is willing to be hidden. My Lord Je¬ 
sus never said He could do things, but He did them. 
When that funeral procession was coming up from 
Nain with the widow’s son carried upon the bier. He 
made them lay it down. He spoke the word, “Arise!” 
and gave the son back to the widow. He had com¬ 
passion for her. And you and I will never do any¬ 
thing except on the line of compassion. We will never 
be able to remove the cancer until we are immersed 
so deeply into the power of the Holy Ghost, that the 
compassion of Christ is moving through us. 

I find that, in all my Lord did, He said that He did 
not do it, but that another in Him did the work. What 
a holy submission! He was just an instrument for 
the glory of God. Have we reached a place where 
we dare to be trusted with the gift? I see in 1 Corin¬ 
thians 13 that if I have faith to remove mountains and 
have not charity, all is a failure. When my love is 
so deepened in God that I only move for the glory of 
God, that I only seek the glory of God, then the gifts 


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can be made manifest. God wants to be manifested, 
and to manifest His glory to humble spirits. 

A faint heart can never have a gift. There are two 
things essential; first, love, and second, determina¬ 
tion, a boldness of faith that will cause God to fulfill 
His word. When I was baptized I had a wonderful 
time and had utterances in the Spirit, but for some 
time afterwards I did not again speak in tongues. 
But one day as I was helping another, the Lord again 
gave me utterances in the Spirit. I was one day going 
down the road and speaking in tongues a long while. 
There were some gardeners doing their work, and 
they stuck their heads out to see what was going on. 
I said, “Lord, You have something new for me. You 
said that when a man speaks in tongues, he should 
ask for the interpretation. I ask for the interpreta¬ 
tion, and I’ll stay right here till I get it.” And from 
that hour the Lord gave me interpretation. 

At one time I was in Lincolnshire in England and 
came in touch with the old pastor of an Episcopalian 
Church. He became very interested and asked me 
into his library. I never heard anything sweeter than 
the prayer the old man uttered as he got down to 
pray. He began to pray, “Lord, make me holy. Lord, 
sanctify me.” I called out, “Wake up! Wake up 
now! Get up and sit in your chair.” He sat up and 
looked at me. I said to him, “I thought you were 
holy.” He answered, “Yes.” “Then what makes you 
ask God to do what He has done for you?” He be¬ 
gan to laugh and then to speak in tongues. Let us 
move into the realm of faith, and live in the realm 
of faith, and let God have His way. 


CHAPTER XV 


GIFTS OF HEALINGS, AND MIRACLES 

God has given us much in these last days, and where 
much is given much will be required. The Lord has 
said to us, “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the 
salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? 
It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, 
and to be trodden under foot of men” We see a 
thought on the same line when our Lord Jesus says, 
“If a man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as a branch, 
and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them 
into the fire, and they are burned.” On the other 
hand He tells us, “If ye abide in Me, and My words 
abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall 
be done unto you.” If we do not move on with the 
Lord these days, and do not walk in the light of re¬ 
vealed truth, we shall become as the savorless salt, as 
a withered branch. This one thing we must do, for¬ 
getting those things that are behind, the past failures 
and the past blessings, we must reach forth for those 
things which are before, and press toward the mark 
for the prize of our high calling of God in Christ 
Jesus. 

For many years the Lord has been moving me on 
and keeping me from spiritual stagnation. When I 
was in the Wesleyan Methodist Church I was sure I 
was saved and was sure I was all right. The Lord 
said to me, “Come out,” and I came out. When I was 
with the people known as the Brethren I was sure 
I was all right now. But the Lord said, “Come out.” 
Then I went into the Salvation Army. At that time it 

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was full of life and there were revivals everywhere. 
But the Salvation Army went into natural things and 
the great revivals that they had in those early days 
ceased. The Lord said to me, “Come out,” and I 
came out. I have had to come out three times since. 
I believe that this Pentecostal revival that we are now 
in is the best thing that the Lord has on the earth 
today, and yet I believe that God has something out 
of this that is going to be still better. God has no use 
for any man who is not hungering and thirsting for 
yet more of Himself and His righteousness. 

The Lord has told us to covet earnestly the best 
gifts, and we need to be covetous for those that will 
bring Him most glory. We need to see the gifts of 
healing and the working of miracles in operation to¬ 
day. Some say that it is necessary for us to have the 
gift of discernment in operation with the gifts of 
healing, but even apart from this gift I believe the 
Holy Ghost will have a divine revelation for us as 
we deal with the sick. Most people seem to have dis¬ 
cernment, or think they have, and if they would turn 
it on themselves for twelve months they would never 
want to discern again. The gift of discernment is 
not criticism. I am satisfied that in Pentecostal cir¬ 
cles today that our paramount need is more perfect 
love. 

Perfect love will never want the preeminence in 
everything, it will hever want to take the place of 
another, it will always be willing to take the back 
seat. If you go to a convention there is always 
someone who wants to give a message, who wants 
to be heard. If you have a desire to go to a conven¬ 
tion you should have three things settled in your 
mind. Do I want to be heard? Do I want to be seen? 
Do I want anything on the line of finances ? If I have 
these things in my heart I have no right to be there. 
The one thing that must move us must be the con¬ 
straining love of God to minister for Him. A preacher 


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always loses out when he gets his mind on finances. 
It is well for Pentecostal preachers to avoid making 
much of finances except to stir up people to help our 
missionaries on financial lines. A preacher who gets 
big collections for the missionaries need never fear, 
the Lord will take care of his finances. A preacher 
should not land at a place and say that God had sent 
him. I am always fearful when I hear a man adver¬ 
tising this. If he is sent of God, the saints will know 
it. God has His plans for His servants and we must 
so live in His plans that He will place us where He 
wants us. If you seek nothing but the will of God, 
He will always put you in the right place at the right 
time. I want you to see that the gifts of healing and 
the working of miracles are part of the Spirit’s plan 
and will come forth in operation as we are working 
along that plan. I must know the movement of the 
Spirit and the voice of God. I must understand the 
will of God if I am to see the gifts of the Spirit in 
operation. 

The gifts of healing are so varied. You may go 
and see ten people and every case is different. I am 
never happier in the Lord than when I am in a bed¬ 
room with a sick person. I have had more revela¬ 
tions of the Lord’s presence when I have ministered 
to the sick at their bedsides than at any other time. 
It is as your heart goes out to the needy ones in deep 
compassion that the Lord manifests His presence. 
You are able to locate their position. It is then that 
you know that you must be filled with the Spirit to 
deal with the conditions before you. 

Where people are in sickness you find frequently 
that they are dense about Scripture. They usually 
know three scriptures though. They know about 
Paul’s thorn in the flesh, and that Paul told Timothy 
to take a little wine for his stomach’s sake, and that 
Paul left someone sick somewhere; they forget his 
name, and don’t remember the name of the place, and 


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don’t know where the chapter is. Most people think 
they have a thorn in the flesh. The chief thing in 
dealing with a person who is sick is to locate their 
exact position. As you are ministering under the 
Spirit’s power the Lord will let you see just that 
which will be most helpful and most faith-inspiring 
to them. 

When I was in the plumbing business I enjoyed 
praying for the sick. Urgent calls would come and I 
would have no time to wash, and with my hands all 
black I would preach to these sick ones, my heart all 
aglow with love. Ah, you must have your heart in 
the thing when you pray for the sick. You have to 
get right to the bottom of the cancer with a divine 
compassion and then you will see the gifts of the 
Spirit in operation. 

I was called at 10 o’clock one night to pray for a 
young person given up by the doctor who was dying 
of consumption. As I looked, I saw that unless God 
understook it was impossible for her to live. I turned 
to the mother and said, “Well, mother, you will have 
to go to bed.” She said, “Oh, I have not had my 
clothes off for three weeks.” I said to the daughters, 
“You will have to go to bed,” but they did not want 
to go. It was the same with the son. I put on my 
overcoat and said, “Good-bye, I’m off.” They said, 
“Oh, don’t leave us.” I said, “I can do nothing here.” 
They said, “Oh, if you will stop, we will all go to bed.” 
I knew that God would move nothing in an atmos¬ 
phere of mere natural sympathy and unbelief. 

They all went to bed and I stayed, and that was 
surely a time as I knelt by that bed face to face with 
death and with the devil. But God can change the 
hardest situation and make you know that He is al¬ 
mighty. 

Then the fight came. It seemed as though the 
heavens were brass. I prayed from 11 to 3:30 in the 
morning. I saw the glimmering light on the face 


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of the sufferer and saw her pass away. The devil 
said, “Now you are done for. You have come from 
Bradford and the girl has died on your hands.” I said, 
“It can’t be. God did not send me here for nothing. 
This is a time to change strength.” I remembered 
that passage which said, “Men ought always to pray 
and not to faint.” Death had taken place but I knew 
that my God was all powerful, and He that had split 
the Red Sea is just the same today. It was a time 
when I would not have “No,” and God said “Yes.” I 
looked at the window and at that moment the face 
of Jesus appeared. It seemed as though a million 
rays of light were coming from His face. As He 
looked at the one who had just passed away, the 
color came back to the face. She rolled over and fell 
asleep. Then I had a glorious time. In the morning 
she woke early, put on a dressing gown and walked 
to the piano. She started to play and to sing a won¬ 
derful song. The mother and the sister and the 
brother had all come down to listen. The Lord had 
undertaken. A miracle had been wrought. 

The Lord is calling us along this way. I am thank¬ 
ing God for difficult cases. The Lord has called us 
into heart union with Himself; He wants His bride to 
have one heart and one Spirit with Him and to do 
what He Himself loved to do. That case had to be 
a miracle. The lungs were gone, they were just in 
shreds, but the Lord restored lungs that were per¬ 
fectly sound. 

There is a fruit of the Spirit that must accompany 
the gift of healing and that is longsuffering. The 
man who is going through with God to be used in 
healing must be a man of longsuffering. He must be 
always ready with a word of comfort. If the sick one 
is in distress and helpless and does not see everything 
eye to eye with you, you must bear with them. Our 
Lord Jesus Christ was filled with compassion and 
lived and moved in a place of longsuffering, and we 


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will have to get into this place if we are to help needy 
ones. 

There are some times when you pray for the sick 
and you are apparently rough. But you are not deal¬ 
ing with a person, you are dealing with the Satanic 
forces that are binding the person. Your heart is full 
of love and compassion to all, but you are moved to 
a holy anger as you see the place the devil has taken 
in the body of the sick one, and you deal with his posi¬ 
tion with a real forcefulness. One day a pet dog fol¬ 
lowed a lady out of her house and ran all round her 
feet. She said to the dog, “My dear, I cannot have 
you with me today/’ The dog wagged its tail and 
made a big fuss. She said, “Go home, my dear.” But 
the dog did not go. At last she shouted roughly, “Go 
home,” and off it went. Some people deal with the 
devil like that. The devil can stand all the comfort 
you like to give him. Cast him out! You are dealing 
not with the person, you are dealing with the devil. 
Demon power must be dislodged in the name of the 
Lord. You are always right when you dare to deal 
with sickness as with the devil. Much sickness is 
caused by some misconduct, there is something 
wrong, there is some neglect somewhere, and Satan 
has had a chance to get in. It is necessary to repent 
and confess where you have given place to the devil, 
and then he can be dealt with. 

When you deal with a cancer case, recognize that it 
is a living evil spirit that is destroying the body. I 
had to pray for a woman in Los Angeles one time 
who was suffering with cancer, and as soon as it was 
cursed it stopped bleeding. It was dead. The next 
thing that happened was that the natural body pressed 
it out, because the natural body had no room for dead 
matter. It came out like a great big ball with tens 
of thousands of fibers. All these fibers had been press¬ 
ing into the flesh. These evil powers move to get 
further hold of the system, but the moment they are 


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destroyed their hold is gone. Jesus said to His dis¬ 
ciples that He gave them power to loose and power 
to bind. It is our privilege in the power of the Holy 
Ghost to loose the prisoners of Satan and to let the 
oppressed go free. 

Take your position in the first epistle of John and 
declare, “Greater is He that is in me than he that is 
in the world.” Then recognize that it is not yourself 
that has to deal with the power of the devil, but the 
Greater One that is in you. Oh, what it means to be 
filled with Him. You can do nothing of yourself, but 
He that is in you will win the victory. Your being 
has become the temple of the Spirit. Your mouth, 
your mind, your whole being becomes exercised and 
worked upon by the Spirit of God. 

I was called to a certain town in Norway. The 
hall seated about 1500 people. When I got to the 
place it was packed, and hundreds were trying to 
get in. There were some policemen there. The first 
thing I did was to preach to the people outside the 
building. Then I said to the policemen, “It hurts me 
very much that there are more people outside than in¬ 
side and I feel I must preach to the people. I would 
like you to get me the market place to preach in.” 
They secured for me a great park and a big stand 
was erected and I was able to preach to thousands. 
After the preaching we had some wonderful cases of 
healing. One man came a hundred miles bringing his 
food with him. He had not been passing anything 
through his stomach for over a month as he had a 
great cancer on his stomach. He was healed at that 
meeting, and opening his parcel, he began eating be¬ 
fore all the people. There was a young woman there 
with a stiff hand. Instead of the mother making the 
child use her arm she had allowed the child to keep 
the arm dormant until it was stiff, and she had grown 
up to be a young woman and was like the woman that 
was bowed down with the spirit of infirmity. As she 


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stood before me I cursed the spirit of infirmity in the 
name of Jesus. It was instantly cast out and the arm 
was free. Then she waved it all over. At the close 
of the meeting the devil laid out two people with fits. 
When the devil is manifesting himself, then is the 
time to deal with him. Both of these people were 
delivered, and when they stood up and thanked and 
praised the Lord what a wonderful time we had. 

We need to wake up and be on the stretch to be¬ 
lieve God. Before God could bring me to this place 
He has broken me a thousand times. I have wept, I 
have groaned, I have travailed many a night until 
God broke me. It seems to me that until God has 
mowed you down you never can have this longsuffer- 
ing for others. We can never have the gifts of heal¬ 
ing and the working of miracles in operation only as 
we stand in the divine power that God gives us and 
we stand believing God, and having done all we still 
stand believing. 

We have been seeing wonderful miracles these last 
days and they are only a little of what we are going 
to see. I believe that we are right on the threshold 
of wonderful things, but I want to emphasize that 
all these things will be through the power of the Holy 
Ghost. You must not think that these gifts will fall 
upon you like ripe cherries. There is a sense in which 
you have to pay the price for everything you get. We 
must be covetous for God’s best gifts, and say Amen 
to any preparation the Lord takes us through, in 
order that we may be humble, useable vessels through 
whom He Himself can operate by means of the Spir¬ 
it’s power. 


CHAPTER XVI 
THE GIFT OF PROPHECY 


In 1 Cor. 12 :10, speaking of the diversities of gifts 
by the same Spirit, Paul writes, “To another proph¬ 
ecy.” We see the importance of this gift from 1 Cor. 
14:1, where we are told to follow after charity, and 
desire spiritual gifts, but rather that we may proph¬ 
esy. We see also that he that prophesieth speaketh 
unto man to edification, and exhortation and comfort. 
How important it is then that we should have this 
gift in manifestation in the church in order that the 
saints might be built up and made strong and filled 
with the comfort of God. But with this as all other 
gifts we should see that it is operated by the Spirit's 
power and brought forth in the unction of the Spirit; 
so that everyone who shall hear prophecy, as it is 
brought forth by the Spirit of God, shall know that 
it is GOD who is bringing forth that which is for the 
edification of those who hear. It is the Spirit of God 
who lakes of the deep things of God and reveals them, 
and unctionizes the prophet to give forth that which 
is a revelation of the things of God. 

Utterance in prophecy has a real lifting power and 
gives real light on the truth to those who hear. 
Prophecy is never a mind reflection, it is something 
far deeper than this. By means of prophecy we re¬ 
ceive that which is the mind of the Lord; and as we 
receive these blessed, fresh utterances through the 
Spirit of the Lord the whole assembly is lifted into 
the realm of the spiritual. Our hearts and minds and 
whole bodies receive a quickening through the Spirit- 
given word. As the Spirit brings forth prophecy we 
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find there is healing and salvation and power in every 
line. For this reason it is one of the gifts that we 
ought to covet. 

While we appreciate true prophecy, we must not 
forget that the Scriptures warn us in no uncertain 
manner concerning that which is false. In 1 John 
4:1 we are told, “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but 
try the spirits whether they are of God: because many 
false prophets are gone out into the world.” And 
John tells us how we can tell the difference between 
the true and the false, “Hereby know ye the Spirit of 
God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ 
is come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit that 
confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh 
is not of God; but this is that spirit of antichrist, 
whereof ye have heard that it should come.” There 
are voices which seem like prophecy and some have 
got into terrible darkness and bondage through lis¬ 
tening to these counterfeits of the true gift of proph¬ 
ecy. True prophecy is always Christ-exalting, mag¬ 
nifying the Son of God, exalting the blood of Jesus 
Christ, encouraging the saints to praise and worship 
the true God. False prophecy deals with things that 
do not edify and is designed to puff up its hearers 
and to lead them into error. 

Many picture Satan as a great, ugly monster with 
great ears, eyes and a tail; but the Scriptures give us 
no such picture of him. He was a being of great beau¬ 
ty and his heart became lifted up. He is manifesting 
himself everywhere today as an angel of light. He 
is full of pride, and if you don’t watch he will try to 
make you think you are somebody. This is the weak¬ 
ness of most preachers and most men — the idea of 
being somebody • There are none of us who are any¬ 
thing, and the more we kn.^w we are nothing, the 
more God can make us a channel of His power. May 
the dear Lord save us from all these pride side-lines 
— they are the devil’s traps. True prophecy will 
show you that Christ is all in all, and that you are 


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in yourself less than nothing and vanity. False proph¬ 
ecy will not magnify Christ but will make you think 
that after all you are going to be some great one. 
You may be sure that such is inspired by “the chief 
of the sons of pride.” 

I want to warn you against the foolishness of con¬ 
tinually seeking to hear voices. Look in the Bible. 
Here we have the voice of God, who at sundry times 
and in divers manners, spake in time past unto the 
fathers by the prophets, and hath in these last days 
spoken unto us by His Son. Don’t run away with 
anything else. If you hear the voice of God it will 
be on the line of the Scriptures of truth given in the 
inspired Word. In Rev. 22:18,19 we see the danger 
of attempting to add to or take from the prophecy 
of this Book. True prophecy, as it comes forth in the 
power of the Spirit of God, will neither take from nor 
add to the Scriptures, but will intensify and quicken 
that which already has been given to us of God. The 
Holy Ghost will bring to our remembrance all the 
things that Jesus said and did. True prophecy will 
bring forth things new and old out of the Scriptures 
of truth and will make them living and powerful 
to us. 

Some may ask, “If we have the Scriptures, why do 
we need prophecy?” The Scriptures themselves an¬ 
swer this question. God has said that in the last days 
He will pour out of His Spirit upon all flesh, “and your 
sons and your daughters shall prophesy.” The Lord 
knew that in these last days prophecy would be a real 
means of blessing to us, and that is why we can count 
on Him giving us, by means of the Spirit, through His 
servants and His handmaids, true prophetic mes¬ 
sages. 

I want to give you a warning concerning listening 
to voices. I was at a meeting in Paisley in Scotland 
and came in touch with two young women. One of 
them wore a white blouse but it was smeared with 
blood. They were in a great state of excitement. 


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These two girls were telegraph operators and were 
precious young women, having received the Baptism 
in the Spirit. They were both longing to be mission¬ 
aries. But whatever our spiritual state is we are sub¬ 
ject to temptations. An evil power came to one of 
these young women and said, “If you will obey me, 
I will make you one of the most wonderful mission¬ 
aries that ever went out.” This was just the devil or 
one of his agents acting as an angel of light. One 
of these young women was captured immediately and 
she became so excited that her sister saw there was 
something wrong and asked the overseer to allow 
them to be free for a time. 

As she took her into a room, the power of Satan, 
endeavoring to imitate the Spirit of God, manifested 
itself in a voice, and led this young woman to believe 
that the missionary enterprise would be unfolded that 
night if she would obey. This evil spirit said, “Don’t 
tell anybody but your sister.” I reckon that every¬ 
thing of God can be told to everybody. If you can¬ 
not preach what you live, your life is wrong. If you 
are afraid of telling what you do in secret, some day 
it will be told from the housetop. Don’t think you will 
get out of it. That which is pure cometh to the light. 
He that doeth truth cometh to the light that his deeds 
may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.” 

The evil power went on to say to this girl, “You go 
to the railroad station tonight, and there will be a 
train coming in at 7:32. Buy a ticket for yourself and 
your sister. Then you will have six pence left. You 
will find a woman in a carriage dressed as a nurse, 
and opposite her will be a gentleman who has all the 
money you need.” She bought her ticket and had 
just six pence left. The first thing came right. Next, 
the train came in at exactly 7:32. But the next thing 
did not come. They ran from the top to the bottom 
of that railroad train before it moved out and nothing 
turned out as they had been told. As soon as the 
train moved out the same voice came and said, “Over 


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on the other platform” All that night until 9:30 
these two young women were rushed from platform 
to platform. As soon at it was 9:30 this same evil 
power said, “Now that I know you will obey me, I 
will make you the greatest missionaries.” Always 
something big! They might have known it was all 
wrong. This evil power said, “This gentleman will 
take you to a certain bank at a certain corner in Glas¬ 
gow where he will put all that money in for you.” 
Banks are not open at that time of night in Glasgow. 
If she had gone to the street this evil spirit mentioned, 
there probably would not have been a bank there. All 
they needed was a little common sense and they would 
have seen that it was not the Lord. If you have your 
heart open for these kind of voices you will soon get 
into a trap. We must ever remember that there are 
many evil spirits in the world. 

Were these two people delivered? Yes, after ter¬ 
rible travail with God, they were perfectly delivered. 
Their eyes were opened to see that this thing was not 
of God but of the devil. These two sisters are now 
laboring for the Lord in China and doing a blessed 
work for Him. If you do get into error on these lines, 
praise God there is a way out. I praise God that He 
will break us down till all pride leaves us. The worst 
pride we can save is the pride of exaltation of self. 

Paul wrote at the commandment of the Lord, “Let 
the prophets speak two or three, and let the others 
judge. If anything be revealed to another that sitteth 
by, let the first hold his peace. For ye may all proph¬ 
esy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be 
comforted.” If you are not humble enough to allow 
your prophecy to be judged, it is as surely wrong as 
you are wrong. Prophecy has to be judged. A meet¬ 
ing such as this one that Paul suggests would certain¬ 
ly be the greatest meeting you ever had. Praise God, 
the tide will rise to this. It will all come into perfect 
order when the church is bathed and lost in the great 


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ideal of only glorifying Jesus. Then things will come 
to pass that will be worth while. 

Coupled with prophecy you will have the fruit of 
the Spirit that is goodness. They were holy men who 
spoke in prophecy in days of old as the Holy Ghost 
prompted them, and so today the prophet who can 
be trusted is a man that is full of goodness, that good¬ 
ness which is the fruit of the Spirit. But when lie 
gets out of this position, and rests upon his own in¬ 
dividuality, he is in danger of being puffed up and 
becoming an instrument for the enemy. 

I knew some people who had a wonderful farm, 
very productive, in a very good neighborhood. They 
listened to voices telling them to sell everything and 
go to Africa. These voices so unhinged them that 
they had scarcely had time to sell out. They sold 
their property at a ridiculous price. The same voice 
told them of a certain ship they were to sail on. 
When they got to the port they found there wasn’t 
a ship of that name. The difficulty was this, to get 
them not to believe these false voices. They said per¬ 
haps it was the mind of the Lord to give them another 
ship, and the voice soon gave them the name of an¬ 
other ship. When they reached Africa they knew no 
language that was spoken there. But the voice did 
not let them stop. They had to come back, broken¬ 
hearted, shaken through, and having lost all confi¬ 
dence in everything. If these people had had sense 
to go to some men of God who were filled with the 
Spirit and seek their counsel, they would soon have 
been persuaded that these voices were not of God. 
But listening to these voices always brings about a 
spiritual pride that makes a man or woman think that 
they are superior to their brethren, and that they are 
above taking counsel of men who they think are not 
so filled with the Spirit as they are. If you hear any 
voices that make you think that you are superior to 
those whom God has put in the church to rule the 
church, watch out, that is surely the devil. 


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We read in the Revelation that the testimony of 
Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. You will find that true 
prophetic utterance always exalts the Lamb of God. 

No prophetic touch is of any good unless there is 
fire in it. I never expect to be used of God till the 
fire burns. I feel that if I ever speak, it must be by 
the Spirit. At the same time remember that the 
prophet must prophecy according to the measure of 
faith. If you rise up in your weakness, but rise up 
in love because you want to honor God, and just be¬ 
gin, you will find the presence of the Lord upon you. 
Act in faith and the Lord will meet you. 

May God take us on and on into this glorious fact 
of faith, that we may be so in the Holy Ghost that God 
will work through us on the line of the miraculous and 
on the lines of prophecy, where we will always know 
that it is no longer we but He who is working through 
us, bringing forth that which is in His own divine 
good pleasure. 


CHAPTER XVII 
THE DISCERNING OF SPIRITS 


“To another discerning of spirits” (1 Cor. 12:10). 
There is a vast difference between natural dis¬ 
cernment and spiritual. When it comes to natural 
discernment you will find many people loaded 
with it, and they can see so many faults in 
others. To such the words of Christ in the sixth 
chapter of Luke surely apply, “Why beholdest 
thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but per- 
ceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” If 
you want to manifest natural discernment, focus the 
same on yourself for at least twelve months and you 
will see so many faults in yourself that you will never 
want to fuss about the faults of another. In the 
sixth of Isaiah we read of the prophet being in the 
presence of God and he found that even his lips were 
unclean and everything was unclean. But praise God, 
there is the same live coal for us today, the baptism 
of fire, the perfecting of the heart, the purifying of 
the mind, the regeneration of the spirit. How impor¬ 
tant it is that the fire of God shall touch our tongues. 

In 1 John 4:1 we are told, “Beloved, believe not 
every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of 
God.” We are further told, “And every spirit that 
confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh 
is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, 
whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even 
now already is it in the world.” From time to time as 
I have seen a person under a power of evil, or having 
a fit, I have said to the power of evil, or Satanic force 
that is within the possessed person, “Did Jesus Christ 
come in the flesh?” and straightway they have an- 

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swered, “No.” They either say, “No,” or hold their 
tongues, refusing altogether to acknowledge that the 
Lord Jesus Christ came in the flesh. It is then, re¬ 
membering that further statement of John’s, “Greater 
is He that is in you than he that is in the world,” 
that you can in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ 
deal with the evil powers and command them to come 
out. We as Pentecostal people must know the tactics 
of the evil one and must be able to displace and dis¬ 
lodge him from his position. 

I was preaching in Doncaster, England, at one time 
on the line of faith and a number of people were de¬ 
livered. There was a man present who was greatly 
interested and moved by what he saw. He was suf¬ 
fering himself with a stiff knee and had yards and 
yards of flannel wound around it. After he got home 
he said to his wife, “I have taken in Wigglesworth’s 
message and now I am going to act on it and get 
deliverance. Wife, I want you to be the audience.” 
He took hold of his knee and said, “Come out, you 
devil, in the name of Jesus.” Then he said, “It is all 
right, wife.” He took the yards and yards of flannel 
off and found he was all right without the bandage. 
The next night he went to the little Primitive Meth¬ 
odist Church where he worshiped. There was a lot 
of young people who were in bad plight there and 
Jack had a tremendous business delivering his friends 
through the name of Jesus. He had been given to see 
that a great many ills to which flesh is heir are noth¬ 
ing else but the operation of the enemy, but his faith 
had risen and he saw that in the name of Jesus there 
was a power that was more than a match for the 
enemy. 

I arrived one night at Gottenberg in Sweden and 
was asked to hold a meeting there. In the midst of 
the meeting a man fell full length in the doorway. 
The evil spirit threw him down, manifesting itself 
and disturbing the whole meeting. I rushed to the 
door and laid hold of this man and cried out to the 


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evil spirit within him, “Come out, you devil! In the 
name of Jesus we cast you out as an evil spirit/’ I 
lifted him up and said, “Stand on your feet and walk 
in the name of Jesus.” I don’t know whether anybody 
in the meeting understood me except the interpreter, 
but the devils knew what I said. I talked in English 
but these devils in Sweden cleared out. A similar 
thing happened in Christiania. 

The devil will endeavor to fascinate through the 
eyes and through the mind. At one time there was 
brought to me a beautiful young woman who had 
been fascinated with some preacher, and just because 
he had not given her satisfaction on the line of court¬ 
ship and marriage, the devil took advantage and made 
her fanatical and mad. They brought her 250 miles 
in that condition. She had previously received the 
Baptism in the Spirit. You ask, “Is there any place 
for the enemy in one that has been baptized in the 
Holy Ghost?” Our only safety is in going on with 
God and in constantly being filled with the Holy 
Ghost. You must not forget Demas. He must have 
been baptized with the Holy Ghost for he appears to 
have been a right-hand worker with Paul, but the 
enemy got him to the place where he loved this pres¬ 
ent world and he dropped off. When they brought 
this young woman to me the evil power was imme¬ 
diately discerned and immediately I cast the thing out 
in the name of Jesus. It was a great joy to present 
her before all the people in her right mind again. 

There is a life of perfect deliverance, and this is 
where God wants you to be. If I find my peace is 
disturbed on any line, I know it is the enemy who is 
trying to work. Ibw do I know tlfis? Because the 
Lord has promised to keep your mind in perfect 
peace when it is stayed on Him. Paul tells us to 
present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable 
unto God, which is our reasonable service, the Holy 
Spirit breathes through him, “And be not conformed 
to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing 


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of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, 
and acceptable, and perfect will of God.” He further 
tells us in Phil. 4, “Finally, brethren, whatsoever 
things are true, whatsoever things are honest, what¬ 
soever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, 
whatsoever things are of good report; if there be 
any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these 
things.” As we think about that which is pure, we 
become pure. As we think about that which is holy, 
we become holy. And as we think about our Lord 
Jesus Christ, we become like Him. We are changed 
into the likeness of the object on which our gaze is 
fixed. 

To discern spirits we must dwell with Him who is 
holy, and He will give the revelation and unveil the 
mask of Satanic power on all lines. In Australia I 
went to one place where there were disrupted and 
broken homes. The people were so deluded by the 
evil power of Satan that men had left their wives, 
and wives had left their husbands, and had gotten into 
spiritual affinity with one another. That is the 
devil! May God deliver us from such evils in these 
days. There is no one better than the companion God 
has given you. I have seen so many broken hearts 
and so many homes that have been wrecked. We 
need a real revelation of these evil seducing spirits 
which come in and fascinate by the eye and destroy, 
lives, and bring the work of God into disrepute. But 
there is always flesh behind it. It is never clean; it 
is unholy, impure, Satanic, devilish, and hell is behind 
it. If the enemy comes in to tempt you on any line 
like this, I beseech you to look instantly to the Lord 
Jesus. He can deliver you from any such Satanic 
power. You must be separated on all lines if you are 
going to have faith. 

The Holv Ghost will give us this gift of discerning 
of spirits if we desire it so that we may perceive by 
revelation this evil power which comes in to destroy. 
We can reach out and get this unction of the Spirit 
that will reveal these things unto us. 


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You will have people come to meetings who are 
spiritists. You must be able to deal with spiritist 
conditions. You can so deal with them that they 
will not have any power in the meetings. If you 
ever have Theosophists or Christian Scientists, you 
must be able to discern them and settle them. Never 
play with them; always clear them out. They are 
better with their own company always, unless they 
are willing to be delivered from the delusion they 
are in. Remember the warning of the Lord Jesus, 
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, 
and to destroy.” 

Before Satan can bring his evil spirits there has 
to be an open door. Hear what the Scriptures say: 
“That wicked one toucheth him not” (1 John 5:18). 
“The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: He shall 
preserve thy soul” (Psa. 121:7). How does Satan 
get an opening? When the saint ceases to seek after 
holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he 
ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives 
way to carnal appetites. Then it is that Satan comes. 
So often sickness comes as a result of disobedience. 
David said, “Before I was afflicted, I went astray.” 
Seek the Lord and He will sanctify every thought, 
every act, till your whole being is ablaze with holy 
purity and your one desire will be for Him who has 
created you in holiness. Oh, this holiness! Can we 
be made pure? We can. Every imbred sin must go. 
God can cleanse away every evil thought. Can we 
have a hatred for sin and a love for righteousness? 
Yes, God will create within thee a pure heart. He 
will take away the stony heart out of the flesh. He 
will sprinkle thee with clean water and thou shalt 
be cleansed from all thy filthiness. When will He do 
it? When you seek Him for such inward purity. 


CHAPTER XVIII 
THE GIFT OF TONGUES 


“Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but 
rather that ye may prophesy. For he that speaketh in 
an unknown tongue, speaketh not unto men, but unto 
God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the 
spirit he speaketh mysteries” (1 Cor. 14:1,2). 

It is necessary that we have a great desire for spir¬ 
itual gifts. We must thirst after them and covet 
them earnestly because the gifts are necessary and 
important, that we, by the grace of God having re¬ 
ceived the gifts, may be used for God’s glory. 

God has ordained this speaking in an unknown 
tongue unto Himself as a wonderful, supernatural 
means of communication in the Spirit. As we speak 
to Him in the unknown tongue we speak wonderful 
mysteries in the Spirit. In Rom. 8:27 we read, “He 
that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind 
of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the 
saints according to the will of God.” Many times as 
we speak unto God in an unknown tongue we are in 
intercession and as we pray thus in the Spirit we pray 
according to the will of God. And there is such a 
thing as the Spirit making intercession with groanings 
which cannot be uttered. 

On this line I want to tell you about Willie Burton, 
who is laboring for God in the Belgium Congo. 
Brother Burton is a mighty man of God and is giving 
his life for the heathen in Africa. He took fever and 
went down to death. They said, “He has preached 
his last; what shall we do?” All their hopes seemed 
to be blighted, and there , they stood, with broken 
hearts, wondering what was going to take place. 


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They left him for dead; but, in a moment, without 
any signal, he stood right in the midst of them; and 
they could not understand it. The explanation he gave 
was this, that, when he came to himself, he realized 
a warmth going right through his body; and there 
wasn’t one thing wrong with him. How did it come 
about? It was a mystery until he went to London 
and was telling the people how he was left for dead, 
and then was raised up. A lady came up and asked 
for a private conversation with him, and arranged a 
time. She asked, “Do you keep a diary?” He an¬ 
swered, “Yes.” She told him, “It happened on a cer¬ 
tain day that I went to pray; and as soon as I knelt, 
I had you on my mind. The Spirit of the Lord took 
hold of me and prayed through me in an unknown 
tongue. A vision came before me in which I saw you 
laid out helpless; and I cried out in the unknown 
tonp-ue till I saw you rise up and go out of that 
room.” She had kept a note of the time and when 
he turned to his diary he found that it was exactly 
the time when he was raised up. There are great pos¬ 
sibilities as we yield to the Spirit and speak unto God 
in quiet hours in our bedrooms. God wants you to 
be filled with the Holy Ghost so that everything about 
you shall be charged with the dynamite of heaven. 

“He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth 
himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church” 
(Verse 4). I want you to see that he that speaketh 
in an unknown tongue edifieth himself, or builds him¬ 
self up. We must be edified before we can edify the 
church. I cannot estimate what I, personally, owe to 
the Holy Ghost method of spiritual edification. I am 
here before you as one of the biggest conundrums in 
the world. There never was a weaker man on the 
platform. Language? None. Inability-full of it. 
All natural things in my life point exactly opposite to 
my being able to stand on the platform and preach 
the gospel. The secret is that the Holy Ghost came 
and brought this wonderful edification of the Spirit. 


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I had been reading this Word continually as well as 
I could, but the Holy Ghost came and took hold of it, 
for the Holy Ghost is the breath of it, and He illu¬ 
minated it to me. And He gives me langauge that 
I cannot speak fast enough; it comes too fast; and it 
is there because God has given it. When the Com¬ 
forter is come He shall teach you ALL things; and 
He has given me this supernatural means of speaking 
in an unknown tongue to edify myself, so that, after 
being edified, I can edify the church. 

In 1 John 2:20 we read, “But ye have an unction 
from the Holy One, and ye know all things.” In 
verse 27 we read, “But the anointing which ye have 
received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that 
any man should teach you; but as the same anointing 
teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, 
and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.” 
Even when you are baptized in the Spirit you may 
say, “I seem so dry, I don’t know where I am.” The 
Word says you have an unction. Thank God you have 
received an anointing. The Holy Ghost here says that 
He is abiding and that He teaches you of all things. 
These are great and definite positions for you. The 
Holy Ghost would have you stir up your faith to be¬ 
lieve that this word is true that you have the unction 
and that the anointing abideth. As you rise up in the 
morning believe this wonderful truth, and as you yield 
to the Spirit’s presence and power you will find your¬ 
self speaking unto God in the Spirit and you will find 
that you are personally being edified by doing this. 
Let everything about you be a lie, but let this word 
of God be true. The devil will say you are the driest 
person and that you will never do anything, but you 
believe God’s word, that the anointing which ye have 
received of Him abideth in you. 

“I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather 
that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth 
than he that speaketh with tongues, except he inter¬ 
pret, that the church may receive edification.” You 


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must understand that God would always have you to 
be in the place of prophecy, for everyone who has re¬ 
ceived the Holy Ghost has a right to prophesy. In 
verse 31 we read, “Ye may all prophesy one by one.” 
Now prophecy is far in advance of speaking in 
tongues, except that you have the interpretation of 
the speaking in tongues, and then God gets an equiva¬ 
lent to prophecy. In verse 13 we read, “Let him that 
speaketh in an unknown tongue, pray that he may in¬ 
terpret.” This is an important word. 

After receiving the Baptism in the Holy Ghost and 
speaking in tongues as the Spirit gave utterance, I 
did not speak with tongues again for nine months. 
I was troubled about it because I went up and down 
laying hands upon people that they might receive the 
Holy Ghost, and they were speaking in tongues, but 
I did not have the joy of speaking myself. God want¬ 
ed to show me that the speaking in tongues as the 
Spirit gave utterance, which I received when I re¬ 
ceived the Baptism, was distinct from the gift of 
tongues which I subsequently received. When I laid 
hands on other people and they received the Holy 
Ghost, I used to think, “Oh, Lord Jesus, it would be 
nice if You would let me speak.” He withheld the 
gift from me, for He knew that I would meet many 
who would say that the Baptism of the Holy Ghost 
can be received without the speaking in tongues, and 
that people simply received the gift of tongues when 
they received the Baptism. I did not receive the gift 
of tongues at that time, but nine months later I was 
going out of the door one morning, speaking to the 
Lord in my own heart, when there came a volume of 
tongues. When tthe tongues stopped I said to the 
Lord, “Now, Lord, I did not do it, and I wasn’t seeking 
it; so You have done it, and I am not going to move 
from this place until you give me interpretation.” And 
then came an interpretation which has been fulfilled 
all the world over. Is it the Holy Ghost who speaks ? 
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speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret, and 
God will give it. We must not rush through without 
getting a clear understanding of what God has to 
say to us. 

“What is it then ? I will pray with the spirit, and 
I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing 
with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding 
also” (Ver. 15). If you pray in an unknown tongue 
in the Spirit you do not know what you are praying; 
you have no understanding of it. It is unfruitful to 
those round about you; but you have the same power 
to pray with the understanding under the unction of 
the Spirit as you have to pray in an unknown tongue. 
Some say, “Oh, I could do that, but it would be my¬ 
self doing it.” If YOU pray, it is yourself, and every¬ 
thing you do in the beginning is yourself. I kneel 
down to pray and the first and second sentences may 
be in the natural; but as soon as I have finished, the 
Spirit begins to pray through me. The first may be 
yourself. Granted. The next will be the Holy Ghost, 
and the Holy Ghost will take you through, praise the 
Lord. Everything but faith will say, “That isn’t 
right.” Faith says, “It is right.” The natural man 
says, “It isn’t right.” Faith says, “It is right.” Paul 
says, “I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with 
the understanding also;” and he does it in faith. The 
devil is against it and your own self-life is against it. 
May God the Holy Ghost bring us into that blessed 
place where we may live, walk, pray and sing in the 
Spirit, and pray and sing with the understanding also. 
Faith will do it. Faith has a deaf ear to the devil 
and to the working of the natural mind, and a big ear 
to God. Faith has a deaf ear to yourself and an open 
ear to God. Faith won’t take any notice of feelings. 
Faith says, “You are complete in Him.” 

It is a wonderful thing to pray in the Spirit and to 
sing in the Spirit, praying in tongues and singing in 
tongues as the Spirit of God gives you utterance. I 
never get out of bed in the morning without having 


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communion with God in the Spirit. It is the most 
wonderful thing on earth. It is most lovely to be in 
the Spirit when you are dressing and you come out 
to the world and the world has no effect on you. You 
begin the day like that and you will be conscious of 
the guidance of the Spirit right through the day. 

“I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than 
ye all: yet in the church I had rather speak five words 
with my understanding, that by my voice I might 
teach others also, than ten thousand words in an un¬ 
known tongue” (Ver. 18, 19). Many people will come 
round and say that Paul said he would rather speak 
five words with the known tongue than ten thousand 
words without understanding. They will always leave 
out that part of the sentence, “I thank my God, I 
speak with tongues more than ye all.” Paul was here 
correcting the excessive speaking in tongues without 
interpretation, which was not for the edification of 
the assembly. If there was no interpreter present, 
they were simply to speak to themselves and to God. 
Suppose we had someone preaching and we had twen¬ 
ty or thirty people all up and down in tongues, it 
would be very serious. There would be confusion. 
The people who attend the meeting would rather have 
five words to edification, consolation and comfort than 
ten thousand words without understanding. 

Because you feel a touch of the Spirit you are not 
obliged to speak in tongues. The Lord will give you 
a sound mind so that you will hold your body in per¬ 
fect order for the edification of the church. But Paul 
here says that he spake in tongues more than they 
all; and, as it is evident that the Corinthian church 
was given to this thing very considerably, he certain¬ 
ly must have been speaking tremendously in tongues 
both day and night. He was so edified by this won¬ 
derful, supernatural means of being built up, that he 
could go to the church, and preaching in a manner 
so that they could all understand him, he would mar¬ 
velously edify the saints. 


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In the law it is written, With men of other tongues 
and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet 
for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord. 
Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that 
believe, but to them that believe not” (Verses 21,22). 
There are many who call themselves believers who are 
extremely unbelieving. One of the unbelieving “be¬ 
lievers” was a Methodist minister who lived in Shef¬ 
field, England. A man gave him a check and told him 
to go and take a rest. This man also gave him my 
name and address; so, when he got to Bradford, he 
began to inquire about me. He was warned against 
me as one of the “tongues people,” and was told to be 
very careful and not to be taken in, for the whole 
thing was of the devil. He said, “They will not take 
ME in; I know too much for them to take me in.” 

He was quite run down and needed rest; and when 
he came he said, “A friend of yours sent me, is it all 
right?” I replied, “Yes, you are welcome.” But we 
could do nothing with that man. It was impossible 
Talk? You never heard anyone talk like him. It was 
talk, talk, talk, talk. I said, “Let him alone, he will 
surely finish some day.” We had dinner, and he 
talked through dinner time; we had the next meal 
and he talked through that. 

It was our Friday night meeting for those seeking 
the Baptism and the mom began to fill with people, 
and still he talked. No one could get an edge in. 
He lodged himself in a place where he could not be 
disturbed by those coming in. I said, “Brother, you 
will have to stop now, we are going to pray.” As a 
general thing we have some singing before going to 
prayer; but this time it was different. It was God’s 
order. We got straight to prayer and as soon as we 
began to pray two young women, one on this side 
and the other on the other side began speaking in 
tongues. And this minister—it was all so strange to 
him—moved from one to the other to hear what they 
were saying. In a little while he said, “May I go to 


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my room?” I said, “Yes, brother, if you wish.” So 
he went to his room and we had a wonderful time. 

We went to bed about eleven o’clock or so and at 
half-past three in the morning this man came 
to the bedroom door. Knock, Knock, “May I 
come in?” “Yes, come in.” He opened the door 
and said, “He is come, He is come”—holding his 
mouth, for he could hardly speak in English. I said, 
“Go back to bed, tell us tomorrow.” Tongues are for 
the unbeliever, and this man was an unbeliever, an 
unbelieving “believer.” Again and again I have seen 
conviction come upon people through the speaking in 
tongues. 

The next morning he came down to breakfast and 
said, “Oh, was not that a wonderful night?” He said, 
“I know Greek and Hebrew, and those two young 
women were speaking these languages, one was say¬ 
ing in Greek, ‘Get right with God,’ and the other was 
saying the same thing in Hebrew. I knew it was God 
speaking, and I knew it was not they. I first had to 
repent. I came in an unbeliever, but I found that 
God was here. In the night God laid me on the floor 
for about two hours. I was helpless. Then God broke 
through.” Here he began again to speak in tongues, 
right over the breakfast table. 

God will have witnesses of His mighty power that 
no man can gainsay. You will have to see that the 
Holy Ghost will speak through you in tongues and 
interpretation which will bring conviction to the un¬ 
believer in the open air; and you will find that God 
will convict by this means. 

I will explain to you the most perfect way to receive 
the gift. Come with me to the second chapter of 2 
Kings and I will show you a man receiving a gift. 
Elijah had been mightily used of God in calling down 
fire and in other miracles; and Elisha is moved with 
a great spirit of covetousness to have this man’s gifts. 
You can be very covetous for the gifts of the Spirit 
and God will allow it. When Elijah said to him, “I 


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vvant you to stop at GilgalElisha said, “As the Lord 
liveth and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.” 
There was no stopping him. When Elijah wanted 
Elisha to stop at Jericho he said in substance, “I am 
not stopping.” The man that stops gets nothing. O, 
don’t stop at Jericho; don’t stop at Jordan; don’t stop 
anywhere when God would have you move on into all 
of His fulness that He has for you. 

They came to Jordan and Elijah took his mantle 
and smote the waters. They divided; and Elijah and 
Elisha went over on dry ground. Elijah turned to 
Elisha and said in substance, “Look here, what do you 
want?” Elisha was wanting what he was going to 
have, and you may covet all that God says that you 
shall have. Elisha said, “I pray thee, let a double por¬ 
tion of thy spirit be upon me. This was the plow-boy, 
who had washed the hands of his master; but his 
spirit got so big that he purposed in his heart that, 
when Elijah stepped off the scene, he would be put 
into his place. 

Elijah said, “Thou hast asked a hard thing: never¬ 
theless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, 
it shall be so unto thee.” May God help you never to 
stop persevering till you get what you want. Let 
your aspiration be large and your faith rise until you 
are wholly on fire for God’s best. 

Onward they go, and as one steps, the other steps 
with him. He purposed to keep his eye on his mas¬ 
ter until the last. It took a chariot of fire and horses 
of fire to part them asunder, and Elijah went up by 
a whirlwind into heaven. I can fancy I hear Elisha 
crying out, “Father Elijah, drop that mantle.” And 
it came down. Oh, I can see it lowering, lowering 
and lowering. Elisha took all of his own clothes and 
rent them in two pieces, and then he took up the 
mantle of Elijah. I do not believe that, when he put 
on that other mantle, he felt any different in himself; 
but when he came to Jordan, he took the mantle of 
Elijah and smote the waters and said, “Where is the 


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Lord God of Elijah?” And the waters parted and he 
went over on dry ground. And the sons of the proph¬ 
ets said, “The spirit of Elijah doth rest upon Elisha.” 

It is like receiving a gift, you don’t know that you 
have it till you act in faith. Brothers and sisters, as 
you ask, BELIEVE. 


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